Join us for this retreat at Nudlaghi Leadership Institute.
WHEN
Starting At: 12:00 AM
WHERE
Overview
Leaders across Alaska are working in environments marked by division, mistrust, and rapid social change. This retreat offers space to step back from the noise and strengthen the skills needed to lead through polarization with clarity, courage, and connection. Participants will explore practices for depolarization, dialogue across difference, and sustaining relationships even when values or identities collide.
What You’ll Explore
- Approaches to depolarization and bridging work
- Tools for dialogue across ideological, cultural, or generational divides
- Strategies for staying grounded and effective in conflict
- Practices for maintaining relationships without sacrificing boundaries
- Insights into leading teams and communities through tension and uncertainty
Who Should Attend
Civic, nonprofit, education, and community leaders who are working in divided environments and seeking stronger skills for navigating conflict, building trust, and sustaining connection across differences.
Facilitators: Taylor Strelevitz & Chuck Seaca
Taylor Strelevitz is a facilitator and strategist at the Alaska Humanities Forum specializing in hard conversations, helping people stay in relationship through disagreement and build understanding across differences. Taylor practices participatory leadership through skills such as conflict facilitation and depolarizing dialogue, creating spaces where people can come together to engage today’s most urgent and pressing topics.Their approach blends practical tools with reflective practice, helping leaders build resilience, deepen self‑awareness, and cultivate the conditions for trust in divided environments. Originally from Connecticut, Taylor moved to Anchorage in 2019. Outside of work, they enjoy tinkering with pasta recipes and doing their best to keep plants alive.
Chuck Seaca was raised by the Kuskokwim River in Bethel, Alaska and now calls Anchorage home. He is passionate about how our stories connect and build empowered communities and is lucky to get to do this as the Director of Leadership Programs at the Alaska Humanities Forum. Chuck works in both adult and youth development through Leadership Anchorage, Story Works, and as the lead for Public Narrative in Alaska. He has facilitated and coached executives from across the world. His past clients include the Bloomberg City Leadership Initiative, the National Urban League, the Advanced Leadership Initiative, the Obama Foundation, and the Center for Public Leadership. After traveling the country as a leadership trainer and coach, he is thrilled to be developing leadership capacity in his home state. Chuck holds a Bachelor’s in Public Policy Analysis-Sociology from Pomona College; a Master’s in Public Policy with a Certificate in Leadership, Management, and Decision Making Sciences from the Harvard Kennedy School; and is a Certified Community Leadership Practitioner through the Association of Leadership Programs.
The Alaska Humanities Forum is a non-profit, non-partisan organization that designs and facilitates experiences to bridge distance and difference – programming that shares and preserves the stories of people and places across our vast state, and explores what it means to be Alaskan.
April 8, 2026 • Jennifer Brandt
April 5, 2026 • Polly Carr
March 22, 2026 • Taylor Strelevitz
