2025 Conference

Interested in Presenting?

Call for Papers

Planning for the 2025 North Star Annual Conference is underway. We are looking for dynamic speakers for our breakout sessions.

If you are interested in presenting a session, please fill out our presenter application form so we can learn more about you and the topic you wish to present.

We welcome your input on session topics! Possible topics we feel important to focus on this year are listed below.

Breakout Session Ideas for 2025

  • Gender Identity 101: A Crash Course
  • The difference between doctrine and policy. Living our covenants and making space for those who experience separation from the church. Reconciling or navigating when policy is painful or when policy is hard to understand.
  • How does one see policy as an effort to make all of God’s children like Himself. How can the current policy changes help all of God’s children become like Him.
  • Elder Rasband’s talk – words matter, they have power to encourage and uplift, and power to hurt and destroy
  • How our experiences have common threads that tie us together as children of God.
  • Helping parents and family members stay on the covenant path when their loved one chooses another path.
  • We only have to do two things: Keep your covenants and love your child/friend/congregants
  • General parenting or General relationships class
  • Strengthening your faith in Jesus Christ when surrounded by confusion and doubt
  • Learning to live with unanswered questions
  • SSA/GI/LGBT crash course 101
  • YSA Session: What things can persons, experiencing lgbtq or whatever, do to act in a way that points them toward eternal marriage between a man and a woman?
  • How to talk about sensitive topics in ways so you don’t shut down.
  • Leading with Love and Understanding to members that feel that they are separated from the body of Christ
  • Seeking out the One: How to minister to LGBT members
  • Changing attitudes of fear and insensitivity to Christlike compassion and inclusion for LBGT members
  • Helping others by strengthening our own relationship with Heavenly Father and Jesus Christ
  • Finding Belonging in the Church
  • Staying strong in the gospel through inspirational music
  • Walking with the Savior through times of doubt, confusion and sorrow
  • What Discipleship means – It’s true isn’t it? Then what else matters? The Sacrifice required by Christianity.
  • Becoming a true disciple of Jesus Christ in a confused and contentious world
  • Balancing Contraries – Love & Law
  • Where do we fit in the gospel plan? A proclamation for everyone.
  • How to listen to understand
  • Hidden Wedges https://www.churchofjesuschrist.org/study/general-conference/2002/04/hidden-wedges?lang=eng#kicker1
  • Many Faces of Intimacy, Emotional Intimacy, physical, spiritual, mental
  • Influence Matters – who are your circle of friends/influence
  • Overcoming Fear: fear of interaction, fear of  friendships. How do we change these to be our super power.
  • Peacemaking vs. Peacekeepers: Navigating differences of love, compassion, promoting peace, learn how to hold the line, boundaries
  • Learning to Love Myself
  • How to really lay this down and Christ’s feet and keep living life as God asks.
  • How to stay strong in the gospel when others wrest the scriptures, doctrine, and policy in ways that may be hurtful to others?
  • NS Relief Society
  • Pornography