During the harvesting of the Inviting Innovation process, I had a wonderful experience of the 4th Principle of the World Café: ‘Encourage Everyone’s Contribution’, which responds to the question, "What if your contribution is a key ingredient?"

I heard someone I’d not yet spoken to speak my own unique phrase when asked what she’d heard that had been most impacting to her. It moved me greatly that at least two people had thought my contribution was meaningful enough to pass on to others… and I couldn’t help but wonder about the ways, perhaps most of them completely unknowable, that we have all influenced and effected each other in these days of meaning/intermingling.

Who or what has influenced you in ways they may not know?