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Building a more connected world,
one community at a time.
The Impact of BreakBread
For those who have attended at least 3 BreakBreads over the course of 6 months
Change the Conversation
& Change the World
BreakBread World is a growing community of Conversation Activists weaving meaningful, soulful conversation in their lives and the world.
We provide resources, workshops, and one-on-one support that help you practice the connection you know is possible!
Act!
Get the BreakBread Conversation Card Deck
Host a nourishing conversation journey with family, friends, or coworkers.
BreakBread is our flagship process that revolves around the age-old act of breaking bread together bolstered by a simple, meaningful conversation process that helps people appreciate each other and come into deeper attunement with each other — a radical concept in a deeply divided world!
“I have a 24 year old son and am really worried about where the world is headed for him. After this dinner, I realize…I don’t have to worry.” – Dinner Guest
Learn!
Attend BreakBread Fundamentals: Conversation Alchemy & The Art of Gathering and learn how to create the conversations and connection you long for in your communities and life.
Join the Kitchen Table Series!
The Kitchen Table Series is a three-month experience in shifting the conversation happening around kitchen tables across the Hudson Valley. Small groups of six gather with the same people once a month to share a meal, explore a meaningful question, and discover what becomes possible when we generously listen, get curious and make space for deeper connection. It’s not a dinner party – more of a community activation – and you don’t need to know anyone beforehand—just come curious and willing to show up. This fall, ten local hosts are opening their homes. Come find your table.
Bring us to Your Organization
Sow the seeds of respect, care and trust with BreakBread programs, Conversation Labs and Embodied Conversation Coaching & Training.
Bring us to Your Community
Nurture more respect, trust, and care in your community with BreakBread  programs, training & support.
We are building a movement woven together one conversation at a time.
BreakBread World is the dream of a world where we value the kinship we share with one another and the world we live in.
What Guests Are Saying
Our approach emerges from the soil of Conversation Alchemy.
Conversation Alchemy is a practice developed by the co-founders, Martha Williams & John Scilipote. It is a model of conversation-as-creation that helps people be more emotionally and bodily present, listen more deeply, and reclaim deeper relationship and resonance with others
and the world we live in. At its core, it is exercising that muscle commonly referred to as an
open heart
Why?.
Because all the technology, legislation, and money in the world cannot begin to solve our most pressing global problems
without genuine supportive communication capable of bridging conflict and division across the spectrum of our common humanity.
We see conversation as a profoundly fundamental yet often overlooked human technology.
Our theory of change revolves around helping people and organizations use this technology to not just learn new skills but to shift their consciousness.Â
Read About Conversation Activism On Substack
Martha Williams and John Scilipote are creators, thinkers, and community connectors passionate about the power of conversation to create communities of care, connection, trust, and belonging. They founded