“Share Your Plate” is the name of Mark Tafoya’s Game in the World, created in Landmark Education’s Team Management and Leadership Program. Chef Mark, as he also calls himself, is a man who loves to cook and feed people. The possibility of his game is nourishing the body and the soul.
A professional chef by trade, for Mark, food is not just something to eat, but an avenue to bring people together. The intention of this game is love, grace and harmony. “People are too often starving unnecessarily and there is enough food to feed everyone,” Mark says. Read more
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“Comparte tu Plato” es el nombre del Juego en el Mundo de Mark Tafoya. Chef Mark, como también se hace llamar, es un hombre al que le encanta cocinar y alimentar a la gente. Dentro de su participación en el Programa Equipo, Administración y Liderazgo (Landmark Education), creo la posibilidad para su Juego en el Mundo de alimentar el cuerpo y el alma.
Como chef profesional, para Mark los alimentos no constituyen sólo algo para comer, sino una vía para unir a la gente. La intención de su juego es crear amor, gracia y armonía. “La gente está ocupada matándose unos a otros con demasiada frecuencia y se mueren de hambre sin necesidad y, en realidad, hay suficiente comida para alimentar a todos en el mundo”, dice Mark.
La misión de Marck es facilitar el entendimiento entre distintas culturas a través de la comida. Su objetivo es crear una comunidad on-line en www.ShareYourPlate.org, “en donde gente de todos los orígenes compartan su cultura y su gastronomía”. Esto se logrará mediante convivencias a nivel local y se donarán las ganancias de éstas a los bancos de comida que ayudan a alimentar a los necesitados en localidades de todo el mundo. Mark planea recaudar $ 20.000 de estos eventos.
Su idea es reunir a la gente a compartir su comida y hablar de cómo evolucionaron sus platillos, con la intención de que la personas vean lo que todos tienen en común. Igualmente importante para Mark, es que las personas también compartan las historias que tienen detrás de cada platillo. Mark considera que “mientras más gente sepa sobre el otro y los platillos que comen, más fácil será crear un entendimiento entre las personas en todo el mundo”.
El éxito del juego de Mark depende del equipo. Se requiere de un gran equipo para llevar a cabo sus planes. En la actualidad cuenta con un equipo de veinte personas de diferentes orígenes. Uno de los miembros de su equipo ha ganado el alojamiento web gratuito para el sitio. Otros tienen responsabilidades diferentes. Por ejemplo, Jennifer Iamolo, quien también es su socia en la Red Culinaria, es responsable de crear el sitio y la red. Al igual que Mark, comparte su pasión por la comida, y está creando un sitio web independiente para personas que trabajan con problemas alimenticios. Con el tiempo, el plan de Mark es crear “mariscales de campo” en todo el mundo que movilizarán a otras personas para crear, como un juego de partidos, reuniones culinarias o “potluck”. El sitio servirá como centro de operaciones y de información para este proyecto. Historias, fotos y videos de los eventos serán publicados en el sitio web para que la gente pueda ver el procedimiento de cada evento y lo puedan compartir en su trabajo.
Mark también busca promover la alimentación saludable. “La comida ha reemplazado al amor”, según Mark. En parte, porque “a veces hay demasiado en condados ricos, y también por que en el oeste comemos por las razones equivocadas. Mientras que, irónicamente, otros no tienen lo suficiente e incluso, mueren de hambre.”
En cinco años, Mark tiene previsto crear una organización sin fines de lucro a partir de su Juego en el Mundo, que apoye con fondos a organizaciones benéficas locales de alimentos para apoyar a las personas que luchan para comer bien en todo el mundo. Este será el legado de “Comparte tu Plato.”
Miembro del Equipo: Mark Tafoya
Equipo New York
Juego en el Mundo: Compartir su Plato Escrito en Inglés por Heath Thomas y Editado en Inglés por Judi Romaine y Traducido al Español por Maritere Davila Winder y Editado en Español por Paola Bortoluz
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With his Game in the World Health and Wellness, Denny Schmidt has designed a training program that teaches people to relate to their physical bodies from an “energetic” point of view. Since energy fields bind and shape physical matter, Denny asserts that all human beings can interact with these energy fields to improve their overall health. “When you gain control over your energy such that they’re under your influence, all physical illness disappears, and you become who you decide to be in the moment. It’s completely unlimited,” says Denny.
As part of his Game, Denny Schmidt is also designing a health and wellness seminar focused on the “body, mind, spirit modality. Denny says, “You’re truly a spiritual being, already whole, perfect, and complete, and the body is just an object you’re living through.”
Denny also feels that “transformational technology” is needed in order to make this more available to participants, in that traditional linear learning is not as effective for mastery of the techniques he teaches. Denny’s training program works experientially and contextually, designed specifically to empower participants to attain sustainable physical health and wellness for themselves.
There is also a second component to the training where Denny teaches individuals to make dietary choices that support their well-being. The ever-increasing number of food products and complexity of nutrition information has created a situation where people are not well-equipped to choose healthy food. Denny stresses the importance of educating oneself about the ingredients in various foods. “The only way to know what’s in your food, is to grow your own food, which is pretty much impossible.” says Denny. He teaches people to use dietary supplements to ensure a consistent intake of critical nutrients.
Most of the people on Denny’s team are “already playing the game on their own.” Team members are already committed to their own health and well-being, and they have taken on “expanding and bringing the technology to the public.”
Denny sees a lot of opportunities for expanding his technology into new and different areas. For example, the basic framework of the Health and Wellness seminar can be adapted to support people in discovering financial abundance. He is also exploring the idea of teaching other people to share the technology and he is excited about the possibility of writing for The Aquarius, a publication that covers energetic modalities.
Denny says if his Game expands beyond his seminars, he envisions the “hundredth monkey effect,” which might bring about a “shift for the entire planet” towards health and well-being. Denny Schmidt, Team 1 Quarter 4, Team Atlanta
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Ilene McCrae’s Game in the World has brought about a new family tradition; producing homemade canned goods, involving all family members in the process. With tomatoes, peaches, applesauce, jellies, chili sauce and lots more items, the family cans and even trades them at Christmas time.
Rock & Roll is Here to Stay has brought together four generations of Ilene’s family, including her 93-year old mother, her children, and her grandchildren. Even Ilene’s ex-husband, who’d been out of communication with Ilene for over twenty years, now participates in Rock & Roll is Here to Stay with his girlfriend.
A larger goal of Ilene’s is to see healthy eating take root in mainstream society and Ilene sees her Game in the World as a way to do that. She thinks it’s interesting that recent generations have grown up entirely on processed foods. Even her 17-year-old grandson told her recently he’d never had homemade applesauce. Her own mother still goes to the farmer’s market in Ann Arbor, Michigan, and nowadays the family gets up with her at 5:00 AM to make the trek.
Ilene would like to see Rock & Roll is Here to Stay spread with more and more people getting interested in canning and eating locally grown foods. She sees the possibility of sharing her Game with other families in different regions where other types of produce are grown. She believes that people don’t understand canning since most families don’t have to do it in today’s world.
Ilene believes that if more people played Rock & Roll is Here To Stay, the food production market would shift nationwide and we’d see an emergence of “locovores;” people who eat foods exclusively produced in their home areas. She also feels that the tradition could expand to encompass entire towns and cities, and perhaps entire food supply chains might shift to serve an expanding demand for local goods. Rock & Roll is Here to Stay is a game that promotes eating good food along with creating a food tradition that brings families together. Ilene McCrea, T1Q4 Team Detroit
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“Share Your Plate” is the name of Mark Tafoya’s Game in the World, created in Landmark Education’s Team Management and Leadership Program. Chef Mark, as he also calls himself, is a man who loves to cook and feed people. The possibility of his game is nourishing the body and the soul.
With his Game in the World Health and Wellness, Denny Schmidt has designed a training program that teaches people to relate to their physical bodies from an “energetic” point of view. Since energy fields bind and shape physical matter, Denny asserts that all human beings can interact with these energy fields to improve their overall health. “When you gain control over your energy such that they’re under your influence, all physical illness disappears, and you become who you decide to be in the moment. It’s completely unlimited,” says Denny.
Ilene McCrae’s Game in the World has brought about a new family tradition; producing homemade canned goods, involving all family members in the process. With tomatoes, peaches, applesauce, jellies, chili sauce and lots more items, the family cans and even trades them at Christmas time.