north Star archive
Keynote & Breakout Sessions
2022: Research-based Insights into Flourishing as a Latter-day Saint
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...
2022: Building Enduring Faith as a Transgender Saint
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...
2022: Cultivating Resilience in Mix-Orientation Marriages via Relational Self-Determination
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...
2022: Keynote Saturday PM
Session Description: ForthcomingTarget Demographic:GeneralPanelists:Owen BarrottMeghan DeckerJoseph StithPresentersBecky Borden
2022: Keynote Saturday AM
Session Description: ForthcomingTarget Demographic:GeneralPresentersJared Halverson
2022: Keynote Friday PM
Session Description: ForthcomingPresentersJenny Oaks Baker & Family Four
2022: Keynote Friday AM
Session Description: ForthcomingPresentersShannon Rants
2023: The A in LGBTQIA
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...
2023: Having Empathy When Your LGBTQ Loved One Makes Choices That Don’t Align With Your Faith
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...
2023: Discovering Christ’s Perfecting Power in the Imperfect Space of Gender
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...