2022: Research-based Insights into Flourishing as a Latter-day Saint

General

Session Description: Latter-day Saint sexual minorities face difficult decisions about how to integrate their sexuality and faith. For those who are striving to navigate these paths within the framework of adherence to Church doctrinal teachings, some will pursue...

2022: Building Enduring Faith as a Transgender Saint

Gender Identity/Trans

Session Description: Transgender Latter-day Saints face especially difficult challenges; sometimes pieces of our faith’s foundations are lost due to circumstances beyond our control. This session will discuss some of these challenges and strategies for maintaining and...

2022: Cultivating Resilience in Mix-Orientation Marriages via Relational Self-Determination

Couples, Married, Spouses

Session Description: Mixed-orientation marriages (MOMs) are often misunderstood. There is a general cynicism in research literature and in the broader culture regarding the relational viability of same-sex attracted (SSA) individuals who marry someone of the opposite...

2022: Keynote Saturday PM

General

Session Description: Forthcoming Target Demographic:General Panelists:Owen BarrottMeghan DeckerJoseph Stith Watch on Vimeo Presenters Becky...

2022: Keynote Saturday AM

General

Session Description: Forthcoming Target Demographic:General Watch on Vimeo Presenters Jared...

2022: Keynote Friday PM

General

Session Description: Forthcoming Watch on YouTube Watch on Vimeo Presenters Jenny Oaks Baker & Family...

2022: Keynote Friday AM

General

Session Description: Forthcoming Watch on YouTube Watch on Vimeo Presenters Shannon...

2023: The A in LGBTQIA

General

Session Description: An asexual person is a person who does not experience sexual attraction. Although this may seem  like a simple definition, being asexual can be just as complex and confusing to navigate as same sex attraction. Nikki, who is asexual and nonbinary,...

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...