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2016: Defining Love: Romance vs. Charity
Session Description: In today’s world we are constantly being told what love is, who we should give it to, and how we should give it. We are bombarded with so many opinions, how can we know how to feel? Where did all of these opinions come from? What is real love?...
2016: Deliberately Choosing Joy – Even While Being Single!
Session Description: Many of us, despite worthy eff orts, remain single for some or perhaps all of our lives. Yet we also enjoy association with a wonderful Church that teaches the preeminence of the family as central to the Plan of Happiness. But can we realize...
2016: Mindfully Mormon: “Resting Transparently in God” During Turbulent Times
Session Description: As this last year has shown, the whirlwind of voices, opinions and political animosity can make it difficult hold on to faith in the Gospel. Adding to this, more and more Americans are facing intense sadness, anxiety, anger and other difficult...
2016: Embracing Diversity from a Christ-Centered Foundation
Session Description: Love and unity in community is fostered by an openness to others' spirituality and navigating the space between us in respectful ways. This session will discuss how we can connect with others who may choose and believe differently from us,...
2016: Building True Masculinity on the Rock of Christ
Session Description: Many of us are far too familiar with feeling inadequate, that somehow we are less than other men, including the distorted images of masculinity shown us in the media. These feelings might impede us from becoming the men God knows we can be. What...
2016: Understanding the Roots of Your Loved One’s Addiction
Session Description: Is a loved one’s struggle with an addiction leaving you feeling helpless? Why can’t you help them simply quit the addictive behavior? The physical and psychological causes and effects of addiction will be outlined. We will be given tools to help...
2016: Self Compassion: Developing Charity for Ourselves
Session Description: In the gospel context, we often talk about having love for God and charity for others but rarely do we talk about self-love in the same positive tone. However, loving ourselves is an essential part of our spiritual progression. In recent research,...
2016: Maintaining Your Faith While Exploring Your Gender Identity
Session Description: Are experiencing a non-traditional gender identity and faith in the restored Gospel of Jesus Christ mutually exclusive? How can we be both transgender and active LDS? Faith in Jesus Christ, repentance, and the saving ordinances found in the Church...
2016: A Woman’s Heart
Session Description: “Every woman was once a little girl. And every little girl holds in her heart her most precious dreams… As the years pass by, the heart of a woman gets pushed aside, wounded, buried… The desires you had as a little girl and the longings you still...
2016: Kneading Brotherhood
Session Description: Can we as men of faith have strong, intimate, non-sexual, physical relationships with other men? Do all men have an innate need to bond with other men on a level that supersedes what society tells us? “Chef Brad” Peterson believes so! Join him as...