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2018: A Path to Brotherhood: Fostering Meaningful Male Connections
Session Description: In this increasingly technological, independent era, we are growing more isolated as a society. This reality can feel even harsher for men of faith wrestling with matters of masculinity and sexuality. How can we develop meaningful connections with...
2018: Understanding & Navigating Faith Crisis with Love & Compassion
Session Description: Faith crisis is an extremely painful and confusing experience, for both those who experience it and their loved ones. How can we best deal with the fear, loneliness, anger, and threat to relationships that accompany faith crisis? This session will...
2018: Serving Our LGBT Members: An Introduction for Church Leaders
Session Description: Church members who experience gender dysphoria or same-sex attraction are often terrified to discuss their feelings with church leaders. However, church leaders are often the first people they come out to. In these vulnerable moments the way...
2018: Panel: Ministering to our LGBT Members for Church Leaders
Session Description: Many lay leaders want to effectively serve LGBT members of their ward but don’t know the best way to show empathy and encouragement. How can a bishop help LGBT members feel supported? How can difficult policies be explained without alienating LGBT...
2018: My Story: Putting My Life in Our Father’s Hands
Session Description: Learning to put our lives in our Father’s hands is a lifelong pursuit, but the blessings of discipleship are powerful and lasting. Join us as we hear from four North Star community members about their efforts to put their lives in our Father’s...
2018: Making & Keeping Female Friends: A Workshop for SSA Women
Session Description: Having friends is great! Friendships between women are essential. Great friendships give us peace, happiness, fulfillment, and many other benefits. But, sometimes friendships take a toll on us. And, sometimes friendships grow one step beyond...
2018: Love Them Today, Reach Them Tomorrow, Defining Our Stewardship
Session Description: Spend time with Janae as she explores what it means to truly follow in the footsteps of the Savior, as we work to effectively love those in our lives who are struggling. See how beautifully we can keep our covenant to “stand as witnesses of God at...
2018: Gender Identity: Finding Your Plateau Rather Than Assuming the Summit
Session Description: There are mountaintops and there are plateaus. We will discuss how trends in gender identity services can treat resolutions as uniform and as a “summit” to be reached. We will discuss how most people, rather than reach the summit, identify a...
2018: Toolbox for Navigating Relationships with Church Leaders & Members
Session Description: Many face complex concerns at the intersection of sexuality, gender, church activity, and faith. Church leaders and members who don’t have lived experience with same-sex attraction or gender dysphoria must pay a price in order to better understand...
2018: Panel: Living with Joy as a SSA/Gay Latter-day Saint Man
Session Description: Married or single, at times it can be a real challenge trying to fit in to our local wards. How do we reconcile an important part of our identity which others around us may not relate to or understand? Join this diverse panel as we share our...