• First, it's a way of life. Instead of waiting for opportunities, Break Divers dive in to the cold and icy waters of resistance and make their own breaks.
• Second, it's a not-for-profit company, with one primary mission: helping others find success, happiness, and friendship in life.
• Third, it's a worldwide community of people who help one another succeed through a unique social networking experience that can only be found on this website.

Dives are a series of tasks that Break Divers can complete to show their skills and proficiencies at certain subject areas.

Through the dive list and program, we help provide the vision and planning. Through the peer-networking support groups and events, we help provide the attitude and support. And finally, through the top-down mentorship and support program that is infused in our community, we help provide the strategy and business sense.

• Not at all. First, Break Diving is a not-for-profit. We're not out to make billions at your expense; we're out to change the world for the better for each and every one of our users, and that means YOU.
• Our focus is you, and not shareholders. Every feature we add is designed, not to addict you and collect data to sell, but to improve your happiness, friendships, and success in life.
• Break Diving abides by the Terms of Service Fairness Project, so you clearly know what the terms of service and privacy policy are, and that they are fair. Our simple TOS will be released on March 8, 2019 and will virtually be a copy of the user bill of rights you find on that site.

Here's the monster-size list!

1. Break Diving is a worldwide connected community. Not only do you get to meet others in your city pursuing the same dreams, but also across the country, and across the globe. If you switch cities for a day (or for a year), not only do your group memberships automatically switch too, but you already know others in the new city because our online community is connected globally. For example, when you move from NYC to Tokyo, you'll leave the Acting NYC and French NYC groups and transfer automatically to the Tokyo Acting and Tokyo French groups. All with a click of the mouse.
2. Each of our in-person BreakOuts is run by trained Break Diving Staff, regardless of city, country, or topic, so you never have to wonder if the live get-together is going to be organized and led well. It will be!
3. All Break Diving members follow the same philosophy: No Rules. No Excuses. No Regrets.™ and adhere to the same Diver's Code, so at each meeting, you'll know that you are going to get along with everyone, because you are cut from the same inspiring mold. Best part: you probably already know many members attending the meetings through prior conversation in our inspiring online community.
4. At Break Diving, our mission is your success and happiness, and no one else's. We value unyielding encouragement, positive teamwork, true friendship, and genuine support.
5. At Break Diving, we don't sell your data for advertising. We think this is contrary to putting the user first.
6. At Break Diving, we don't want you addicted to social media, so we force all members off each month on "Break Diving Days", encouraging members to go out into the real world, with real people, pursuing real dreams. During this time, no one may access the site.
7. The Break Diving dive program actually results in measurable career, job, and life progression, helping and encouraging you as you climb to the next rung of your ladder.
8. At Break Diving, we verify every accomplishment, accolade, and job you claim, ensuring others can completely trust your profile. If it ain't true, or it ain't you, it doesn't find its way onto your profile.
9. At Break Diving, we eliminate raw and crass self-promotion that doesn't clearly have a benefit to other members.
10. At Break Diving, you won't find political or religious anger and argument. No one ever benefits from the vitriol we see on social media, so we got rid of it.
11. At Break Diving, you won't be subject to constant public humiliation, criticism, shaming, or negative peer pressure. We are of the belief that if you don't have something nice to say, don't say anything at all.
12. At Break Diving, there's no drive to gain 'followers' or 'likes', because we don't think either helps you in your daily life. Pursuing likes and followers is counterproductive to your well being, both psychologically and emotionally.
13. At Break Diving, your happiness and contentment levels actually increase the more you use our site. It's been proven time and time again in our current community, and when you join, you'll see what we mean.
14. At Break Diving, you won't hurt yourself trying to take dangerous photos just to impress people. We're all for photos, but we strive for friendship, not vanity.
15. And at Break Diving, your risk of selfie addiction will drop, for we emphasize living your life in the real world, which is a lot more exciting.

Break Diving abides by the Terms of Service Fairness Project, so you clearly know what the terms of service and privacy policy are, and that they are fair. Our simple TOS is virtually a copy of the user bill of rights you find on that site.

Here's the monster-size list!

1. Break Diving is a worldwide connected community. Not only do you get to meet others in your city pursuing the same dreams, but also across the country, and across the globe. If you switch cities for a day (or for a year), not only do your group memberships automatically switch too, but you already know others in the new city because our online community is connected globally. For example, when you move from NYC to Tokyo, you'll leave the Acting NYC and French NYC groups and transfer automatically to the Tokyo Acting and Tokyo French groups. All with a click of the mouse.
2. Each of our in-person BreakOuts is run by trained Break Diving Staff, regardless of city, country, or topic, so you never have to wonder if the live get-together is going to be organized and led well. It will be!
3. All Break Diving members follow the same philosophy: No Rules. No Excuses. No Regrets.™ and adhere to the same Diver's Code, so at each meeting, you'll know that you are going to get along with everyone, because you are cut from the same inspiring mold. Best part: you probably already know many members attending the meetings through prior conversation in our inspiring online community.
4. At Break Diving, our mission is your success and happiness, and no one else's. We value unyielding encouragement, positive teamwork, true friendship, and genuine support.
5. At Break Diving, we don't sell your data for advertising. We think this is contrary to putting the user first.
6. At Break Diving, we don't want you addicted to social media, so we force all members off each month on "Break Diving Days", encouraging members to go out into the real world, with real people, pursuing real dreams. During this time, no one may access the site.
7. The Break Diving dive program actually results in measurable career, job, and life progression, helping and encouraging you as you climb to the next rung of your ladder.
8. At Break Diving, we verify every accomplishment, accolade, and job you claim, ensuring others can completely trust your profile. If it ain't true, or it ain't you, it doesn't find its way onto your profile.
9. At Break Diving, we eliminate raw and crass self-promotion that doesn't clearly have a benefit to other members.
10. At Break Diving, you won't find political or religious anger and argument. No one ever benefits from the vitriol we see on social media, so we got rid of it.
11. At Break Diving, you won't be subject to constant public humiliation, criticism, shaming, or negative peer pressure. We are of the belief that if you don't have something nice to say, don't say anything at all.
12. At Break Diving, there's no drive to gain 'followers' or 'likes', because we don't think either helps you in your daily life. Pursuing likes and followers is counterproductive to your well being, both psychologically and emotionally.
13. At Break Diving, your happiness and contentment levels actually increase the more you use our site. It's been proven time and time again in our current community, and when you join, you'll see what we mean.
14. At Break Diving, you won't hurt yourself trying to take dangerous photos just to impress people. We're all for photos, but we strive for friendship, not vanity.
15. And... at Break Diving, your risk of selfie addiction will drop, for we emphasize living your life in the real world, which is a lot more exciting.

If you are a U.S. Citizen, and you itemize your deductions, the IRS allows a membership fee of up to $75 paid to a U.S. charity to be deducted from your taxes as a charitable donation. Therefore, up to $75 of your annual membership fees may be deducted.

Slack is a business tool, and is not meant to act as a community site. Moreover, it's in no way equipped to handle the international and dream-focused purpose of our company.

Therefore, our new community is VERY different:

• Your profile shows what country you're from, what major world city you're in now, what languages you speak, what languages you study, what your dreams are, and which dives you are actively pursuing--Slack doesn't do that!
• You can find others in your city and around the world who are pursuing the same dives--Slack doesn't do that!
• You can easily join in-person events in major world cities near you to help you network with others on the same path you are--Slack doesn't do that!
• And the list goes on...

Yup! We have individual message boards and live chat rooms for any language with at least 2 members, so you can practice with other members.

Plus, we have begun to offer live language classes, practice sessions, and more.

It is. We link the community to our new website WYSEguidance, and also the Break Diving blog, as well as our self-study classroom.

If you're a lifelong learner, you're going to love Break Diving.

Since we are a charitable organization, we ask that anyone who signs up and pays a membership fee believe in our mission first and foremost. For this reason, we appreciate your donation to our charity Break Diving, Inc. Your donation will be allocated for use in pursuit of our global mission.

Inititally, no. As members join, the system keeps track of how many members we have in each country, and which dives they are pursuing. Once there are enough members in particular cities pursuing particular dives, new 'breakout' groups are created.

However, the online community itself will keep you busy as the membership numbers grow in your particular city. We are all friends!

Finally, we have a great referral program, so you can easily invite your friends from your city, and gain points for doing so!

There are over 400 dives so far to choose from: adventure dives, career dives, travel dives, language dives, financial dives, showbiz dives, and the list goes on. Trust us: you're going to find so many dreams you want to pursue you're gonna have a hard time choosing where to start!

Just click on 'The Dive List' in the navbar dropdown to read all about each of the dives we offer. If you have suggestions for new dives, let us know!

It's super easy! It all happens in your profile. First, choose dives of interest. Then, when you're ready to pursue one of those dives, click 'Go for it!' You'll be required to post a message explaining why you're pursuing that dive and what your plan is, and then, you'll be added to that dive group for your particular city. Click on that dive and you'll now see others who are pursuing that dive too!

Visit 'The Dive List' and check to make sure you meet the requirements for the level you are applying for. NOTE: You MUST get certified sequentially, i.e. you must become Actor Level 1 before you can apply for certification at Actor Level 2. Then, when you're ready, click the 'certify new dive' in the Rocket Action Menu, and follow the instructions. Note: All certifications require that you write a new post for W.Y.S.W.guidance.

Our community is only useful if our members pursue their dreams and help one another. Therefore, we require all of our members to meet minimum activity requirements each quarter. If you do not meet them, you risk losing your membership access and forfeiting your membership fee. You would also have to make a $5 donation to Break Diving, and a $5 donation to another charity to be reconsidered for membership.

Why do we do this? To encourage you to stay active!

After you join, you'll be required to complete a full profile, and as part of that process, you'll be invited to write an introduction which will be posted on the message board with the tag 'Introduce Yourself'. Others will be encouraged to reply and welcome you! Next, you can click on 'Divers' to access our full member directory, you can click on 'Groups & Cities' to find others near you pursuing the same dreams, and you can write direct messages to others via the mailbox!

Maybe we should rename our app "Friendbook" because making supportive new friends on the other side of town, or on the other side of the planet, couldn't be easier. We've designed the app to allow you to make new friends from the very first day you join us. If you want new friends, and in particular, positive, supportive friends who are pursuing the very same dreams you are, Break Diving is going to make that happen for you very quickly.

You can easily reach out to customer support staff via the tag 'member support' when making a new post. You can also send an email to info at break diving dott org, or text us on our customer service support line: 808-482-4136 (American Number). This number does NOT accept phone calls.