2023: Having Empathy When Your LGBTQ Loved One Makes Choices That Don’t Align With Your Faith

Parents

Session Description: We have been told in recent years, by leaders of the Church and others, that we need to show love to our LGBTQ friends and family, even if they make choices that go against our knowledge of the truths of the gospel. How do we operationalize that...

2023: Discovering Christ’s Perfecting Power in the Imperfect Space of Gender

Gender Identity/Trans

Session Description: When it comes to our personal identity, we’re all raised believing that we’re sons and daughters of a loving Heavenly Father. What happens, however, when the cultural lines between sons and daughters blur thanks to gender incongruence or...

2023: North Star Relief Society

Spouses of SSA Men, SSA Women, Women

Session Description: We are two sides of the same coin, and we are perfect to help one another. This is the first time we are bringing these two communities together at a North Star conference. We each have something to offer one other as women, and individually we...

2023: Here a Little and There a Little, Ways Lighted a Footstep or Two

Gender Identity/Trans

Session Description: In my daily, and often hour-by-hour negotiation with life, I am far too frequently presented with predicaments. How am I to cope the next hour with discouragement’s threats to envelop or sink me, while at the same time striving to move forward in...

His Image in Your Countenance

Blog, Couples, Married, Spouses, Spouses of GI/Trans, Spouses of SSA Men, Spouses of SSA Women, Stories, Stories: Spouses of SSA Men, Stories: Spouses of SSA Women

by HEIDI APPLEGARTH General Conference can show up in unexpected places. Recently, I was contemplating the profound joy I have felt because of the gospel of Jesus Christ. I reflected on the joy I have experienced in striving to keep sacred covenants made in the...

2023: How to Heal Using the Trauma Model

Couples, Spouses

Session Description: What is trauma? Have you experienced it? What do you need to heal? Come as we discuss symptoms of trauma, how they manifest in daily life, and how you can heal using the trauma model. We will practice some emotional grounding techniques to propel...

2023: Transform Your Ministry: Connecting Through and Understanding Gender Identity

Church Leader

Session Description: Are you having a difficult time understanding what it means to be transgender, non-binary, or intersex? Are gender dysphoria and gender incongruence new terms or experiences that you can’t relate to? The purpose of this breakout session is to...

2023: When Choices Don’t Align: Staying on the Covenant Path When Your Spouse Doesn’t

Spouses

Session Description: This topic will be an honest and open discussion on self-care that feeds your spirit to cleaving unto Christ in times of gut wrenching pain, when choices of one spouse strays from the covenant path. Target Demographic:Spouses Watch on Vimeo...

2023: 5 Simple Strategies to Family Calm: A Parent’s Guide to Establishing Loving Boundaries and Managing Stress

Parents

Session Description: Discover how to experience “The Great Calm” in your home by using love as the starting point to establish appropriate boundaries in your unique family situation. Our Christ-like love is the foundation of our interactions with all of Father’s...

2023: Identifying First as a Child of God

Gender Identity/Trans

Session Description: This session will help to get a better sense of one’s inner compass defining who we are, not what we are. No matter the letter you identify with as your label, this may possibly add a different perspective to help find acceptance and meaning...