BreakBread Blog
Essays, musings, and announcements
Essays, musings, and announcements
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 BreakBread World – reweaving our common humanity through meaningful conversation over food – and developed Embodied Conversation, a practice that teaches people how to be more present and claim more agency for conversations that are more fully engaged and meaningful leading to relationships with self and others that are more alive and loving.
They bring their deep love for one another and sense of play to every event they lead along with their collective experience in facilitation, coaching, healing, mindfulness, culture & sustainability, music, dance, and the arts.
July 6, 2025: Celebrating Interdependence Day! Insights from the Woodstock Community BreakBread
Woodstock Center for Awakening and BreakBread Declare Independence Day for All at the Woodstock Community Center A small crowd just shy of 50 souls gathered for food and conversation at […]
Amerikatsi: A View Into Freedom
September’s BreakBread prompt was on Freedom: What does freedom feel like? Tell us a story (or a moment) when you discovered you were free or when you discovered that you […]
The Abortion Talks…Can Conversation Save Us From Division?
I recently had the privilege of watching the first public screening of The Abortion Talks a yet-to-be released documentary by Sarah Perkins and Josh Sabey, that covers the crimes of […]
What does the digital future have to do with BreakBread World?
Last week I was tipped off about a digital future conference, Unfinished Live, at the Shed (in Hudson Yards, NYC) which was “exploring the Collision of Technology, Art, Ideas, and […]
Give Peace A Chance?
Wednesday, September 21 marks the 40th anniversary of the first celebration of the International Day of Peace in 1982 and has been designated Peace Week 2022. I was a child […]
The Capital(Ist) “I” / Why Must “i” Be This Way?
There’s been a lot of attention paid to pronouns in recent years. He and she now have a lot of company. It’s becoming more common to meet a person wishing […]
What An Amazing Time To Be Alive!?
What does a culture of inquiry mean? It means we have practices in place where we can get under the implicit and explicit assumptions that run our everyday lives. And […]
What Is Culture?
Culture in its simplest terms is “shared meaning” so if you want a more conscious culture or to “shift culture,” you have to understand what meaning is already resonating in […]
What Does Conversation Have To Do With Peace?
John and I were recently invited to attend a panel session at the UN exploring the role of innovation in education and peacebuilding. It was sponsored by The Permanent Missions […]
Embodied Conversation: What is it and Why is it Important?
Shifting Conversation for a More Connected World In a society where disconnection is rampant and we seek belonging and inclusion, the practice of Embodied Conversation invites us to be more […]