Sunday, February 16, from 6:00-8:30 pm, doors open at 5:15
Registration closes on February 14
Woodstock Community Center
56 Rock City Road, Woodstock, NY
Suggested level of support: $20
We invite you to join your fellow Woodstock area friends, family, and neighbors in active and inspired conversation around a prompt about “home” while breaking bread together. (See full prompt below)
Planting the seeds for a healed, whole, and vibrant Woodstock through community conversation!
Good people are increasingly feeling isolated or stuck in their tribal corners or let down by their social lives and connection. Yet, most of us want more authentic, human connection with those in their physical community.
This is the work of BreakBread World
We support communities, organizations, and everyday people to gather and connect with more intention and depth. To reweave our common humanity one gathering at a time. We do this by leading community BreakBreads, and by offering community support for people to host their own BreakBreads,
BreakBread is a quiet oasis where you show up as you are –
to listen, share, laugh, and connect. Each dinner revolves around a carefully crafted prompt that cuts through small talk. Every gathering is different and every conversation unique as we open unexpected vistas of inspiration and connection that linger long after dinner is done.
At intimate tables of 6, we explore a carefully crafted prompt. Here is this gathering’s prompt on HOME.
“The ache for home lives in all of us, the safe place where we can go as we are and not be questioned.” ~Maya Angelou
What is home for you? Share a story of home or the ache for home.
What to bring?
- This is a community potluck. Please bring a delicious dish for 6 to share. When you register, you’ll be prompted to indicate what you plan on bringing.
- We prefer to not use disposable dinnerware if possible so we invite you to bring your dish, cutlery and utensils.
- Most importantly, bring an open mind with an extra helping of curiosity.
What’s the flow?
- Doors open at 5:15, you will have a chance to locate your seat, label the dish you brought, and mingle a bit.
- At 6:00 we circle up to get present, connect to the purpose and go over some guidelines.
- Then we get our food and go to our respective tables of 6 to get to know each other and have a 1 hour conversation around the evening’s prompt (see the above section for the prompt).
- At the end, we will circle back up for an intentional closing.
What happens after our BreakBread gathering?
- We will send a follow up email with photos and takeaways.
- If you feel called, host your own BreakBread or attend one
- We reconvene in MAY
Meet the Team
Your facilitators & Creators of BreakBread Wold: Martha Williams & John Scilipote
Martha Williams and John Scilipote developed the BreakBread process and Embodied Conversation and have worked with hundreds of people to bring insight into how they show up to conversation and what it means to build cultures of trust and belonging. They bring their decades of experience in facilitation, coaching, nondual healing, mindfulness, culture & sustainability, and the arts & movement to all their work.
Your Hosts, The Woodstock Center for Awakening (WOCA): Sam Truitt & Michael Raphael
The Woodstock Center for Awakening is a 501(c)3 organization dedicated to the exploration of awakening in all its forms, an event-driven intersection where people and groups may discover, learn, and thrive through building community. At WOCA we say, “We are not what we think,” and aim to be a sanctuary for personal growth, self-realization + awakening. We are committed to fostering connection, empowerment and social responsibility and contributing to the well-being and development of Woodstock and beyond. WOCA is the sponsoring organization of the annual Woodstock Community Festival of Awakening, which will occur in 2025 on the weekend of August 8-10.
For more information visit the Woodstock Center for Awakening website.
If you have any questions about this event, please be in touch at connect@breakbread.world
Thank you, and we look forward to breaking bread with you!
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