north Star archive
2019: Panel: How to Help Others Know About Your Dysphoria and Let Them in to Help
Session Description: With so few people who seem to really understand the issues surrounding gender identity, it can be difficult to find support from others. This panel will discuss the...
2019: How to Maintain Open Constructive and Vulnerable Conversations with Loved Ones
Session Description: Discussing same sex attraction can become challenging when it triggers our fears. When we experience fear, we stifle our capacity to show up with love. Coach Kim will teach you...
2019: Having Hope in My Identity as a Child of God
Session Description: Knowing who we truly are as children of God is one of the most hopeful and lasting truths in our lives; especially in a world that tries to get us to take on so many various...
2019: Ministering to LGBT Teens
Session Description: If a youth in your stewardship came out would you feel prepared to support them? This session will be filled with applicable ideas for how to help youth in your stewardship feel...
2019: Strengthening Your Marriage with Your Transgender Spouse
Session Description: Every marriage has many unique nuances that can impact the ability to sustain peace and happiness. There is perhaps no more apparent example of this than in a marriage in which...
2019: The Dead-Ends, U-Turns, and Roadblocks of SSA Women’s Journeys: Navigating Emotional and Spiritual Health
Session Description: Every SSA woman’s journey is different, no two are the same. However, we can still learn from one another’s dead-ends, u-turns, and roadblocks. In this session we will dig deep...
2019: Increasing Self-Awareness: How to Respond To My Attractions in a Healthy Way
Session Description: Change is Inevitable. Growth is Optional. Have you ever wondered about the purposes of your same sex attraction? How have you been shaped or changed by your attractions to...
2019: My Story: Finding Hope While Single
Session Description: Is it possible to maintain hope while single and dealing with challenges of same-sex attraction? It can often be a lonely and challenging road, but a very possible one. Come...
2019: Panel: Healthy Ways to Communicate Your Needs in Marriage
Session Description: Lasting relationships require communication and flexibility. Working together to meet each other’s needs is a dance that can create a meaningful and lasting relationship....
2019: Navigating Challenges of Faith
Session Description: LGBTQ+ people of faith are faced with seemingly irreconcilable challenges and unanswerable questions on a daily basis. In this session we will take on these challenges and...