#ISSS2019 Corvallis

Everyone is invited to our nineteenth annual ISSS Reflection RoundTable every morning from 7:45 to 8:45 Monday through Friday, July 23-27.  Join us every day, or whenever you like!  Bring your coffee and a breakfast roll if you like.  

OUR FORMAT: We spend 5 minutes listening to short informational readings.  A topic is suggested.  We then spend 50 minutes on individual reflections or learning reports, time distributed equally among all present (e.g. 25 people = about 2 minutes each).

TOPICS: Our suggested topics for the 1st SESSION will include: [1] “Linking this year’s theme, Innovation and Optimization in Nature and Design, to your specific field of expertise, what do you see as our greatest challenges? Our greatest hopes?” [2] "What situations/ projects did you leave behind to come here? What could happen here that would be valuable to you in your life/ work back home?" 2nd - 5th SESSION TOPICS are [1] suggested by the facilitator-of-the-day, and [2] "What did you experience yesterday that was interesting/important learning for you? In what way was it interesting/important?”

RESULTS: Folk wisdom and compelling research indicate that participants experience surprising benefits from this activity after about four sessions. Our own experience with this format has resulted in the following theory: Just as we break the sound barrier when we travel faster than the speed of sound, we break the communication barrier when we hear 30 authentic viewpoints in 60 minutes.