We just finished Cohort #1 of “Shift the Conversation: Navigating Charged Environments”

And here’s what people are saying!

As a seasoned coach, facilitator and organizational development professional, I learned some very new distinctions that took the edge off of intolerable conversations .

I learned that I tend to try to dominate when I’m challenged in a conversation.

I learned it’s important to be mindful of not just my own capacity, but the capacity of others.

I learned to be a better observer in triggering communications.

Cohort #2 starts October 14


Shift the Conversation: Navigating Charged Environments
A “Difficult Conversations” Learning Lab
for Impact Leaders & Changemakers

Designed and Facilitated by BreakBread World

Four sessions with optional practice sessions on off weeks

Tuesday, October 14, 5-7 PM ET
Tuesday, October 28, 4-6 PM ET
Tuesday, November 11, 4-6 PM ET
Tuesday, December 2, 4-6 PM ET

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Shift the Conversation > Shift Relationships

Join us for a dynamic four-session series where you’ll learn to navigate tough conversations with confidence and care. Using our Embodied Conversation Model, we’ll explore how to bridge divides and connect across differences in values, perspectives, and worldviews.

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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 weave 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 more effectively.

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Crucial to the resilience and sustainability of our living planet is relational wisdom.

Shift the Conversation, Navigating Charged Environments emboldens students with powerful tools and a supportive community, so you can gracefully face challenging, triggering and adversarial conversations and have a more complex and balanced relationship with those differences.

How does it work?
Sessions will be a mix of presentation and conversational practice. You will be invited to work with a partner between sessions.

Time commitment:
3 hours per month + any real life conversations where you practice.

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These skills are needed now, more than ever! 

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Topics will include:

  • The invisible conversation – bringing awareness to the unseen, unheard parts of conversation
  • Conversational context – We all live in our own contextual bubbles. Learn to transform conversation by shifting context.
  • Slowing down – We live in a hyperfast world. How is speed getting in the way of communication and connection?
  • Liberating the righteous mind – How do we navigate righteousness with openness and integrity?
  • Fear of fear – Fear is a part of challenging conversations. Rather than reacting by lashing out or shutting down, how do we make room for it to help us take chances, bridge divides, and create connection?
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To learn more about our “Difficult Conversations Learning Lab for Impact Leaders & Changemakers” watch this video excerpt from a presentation given to the Living Planet Working Group.

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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. Martha is a Co-Active Coach, facilitator, long-time culture-maker and award-winning filmmaker and choreographer. She holds a B.A. in Anthropology from The George Washington University and an M.F.A. in Film Directing from the California Institute of the Arts. John’s foray into the art of listening and conversation was initially through his experience as a jazz musician. After an early music career, he focused on entrepreneurship and business, starting a record label in the early 90s and then moving on to founding a digital technology company in the mid 90s while he raised his children. John is a 20 year practitioner of nondual healing and men’s work facilitation as well as a certified soulful facilitator. He studied at Wesleyan University and holds a B.A. from the New England Conservatory.

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Cost

Regular Cost: $380 or 3 installments of $130

Discounted Cost for members of the Living Planning Working Group and Social Venture Network: $300 or 3 installments of $100

For the member discount code, check for emails from your organization or email us directly.