Are you ready to get people in your community talking?
Each toolkit has a focused conversation guide, a springboard to launch discussion, community agreements for the shared space, and participant surveys so that you’ll have everything you need to host.
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Our Toolkit Topics
Below is our current list of Kindling Conversation toolkits. Each displays a guiding question, a conversation guide, and a springboard as resources for you to dive into. Don't see the topic you're passionate about? Send us a suggestion!
Continuous: A Conversation on Gender and Culture
Guiding Question: How does culture shape our understanding of gender?
Death and Culture: Inheriting Richness
Guiding question: how does culture bring joy into how we move through experiencing death and grief?
Forging Our Family
Guiding Question: How do we make our family, and who belongs in it?
Homeless in the Great Land
Guiding Question: What do we expect from ourselves and our government when it comes to homelessness?
Languages Barriers and Bridges
Guiding Question: How does language connect us? How does language divide us?
How Are You Creative?
Developed in partnership with the Alaska State Council on the Arts. Guiding question: how are you creative?
Journalism and Community
Guiding Question: What's possible when community and media connect?
Salmonberries and Saag Aloo: Carrying Our Heritage
Guiding Question: How do we choose what heritage we carry with us?
We Are Of: A Conversation on Race, Land, and Culture
Guiding Questions: How do our race and culture shape our relationship to the land? How does that shape the decisions we make about it?
CXG2 presents Beyond Self: Engagement and Accountability in Community
Developed by CXG alumni. Guiding question: where and how do you engage with your community? What does community mean to you?
CXG2 presents Alternate Realities: a conversation about class and race.
Developed by CXG alumni. Guiding question: how do race and class shape our sense of identity and community?
Stories That Shape Us
Guiding Question: What stories from my past do I keep with me, and how do my cultures and heritage play into that?
Leadership in Alaska Series: Changing Times
Guiding Question: In times of rapid change, what guides us?
Leadership in Alaska Series: Sense of Place
Guiding Question: How does where we're from influence how we lead?
Leadership in Alaska Series: Trailblazing
Guiding Question: When are we called to act without permission?
Leadership in Alaska Series: Legacy
Guiding Question: What do we owe future generations?
Leadership in Alaska Series: Mentorship
Guiding Question: How does our culture influence the way we teach and learn?
Leadership in Alaska Series: Flexibility
Guiding Question: Do we ever live up to our own expectations?
Leadership in Alaska series: Community
Guiding question: what responsibility do we have to contribute to our community?
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Alaska Humanities Forum
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.
Gather Round: The AKHF Blog
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November 13, 2025 • MoHagani Magnetek & Polly Carr
- Breaking bread and breaking barriers
November 12, 2025 • Becky Strub
- Finding ways to heal: A conversation with Jim LaBelle, Sr.
November 10, 2025 • Jim LaBelle, Sr. & Amanda Dale
