1299: Mormon Faith Crisis Retreat Pt. 2 - Understanding and Navigating a Religious Transition
Mormon Stories Podcast
Dr. John Dehlin
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🗓️ 23 April 2020
⏱️ 113 minutes
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Summary
Five years years ago, upon completing my Psychology Ph.D., I began holding retreats and workshops to support Mormons in faith crisis, and specifically to help reduce anxiety, depression, suicidality, family strife, and unnecessary divorce for those experiencing a Mormon Faith Crisis. For many of these workshops and retreats, I was fortunate to co-present with Natasha Helfer Parker and Margi Dehlin.
In August of 2019 we decided to hold a weekend retreat and record the entire experience ,including the attendee participation. This is that retreat, which was held from 8/30 to 9/1/2019 in Salt Lake City, Utah. 40 audience members participated. The following topics were addressed:
- Understanding and Navigating a Religious Transition
- Fundamentals of Mental Health in a Religious Transition
- The Key to Healthy Relationships: Emotional Intimacy
- Healthy Sexuality After a Faith Transition
- Conscious Parenting
- Communicating with Believing Family and Friends
We hope you enjoy this content. It is the best insight we can share to help you navigate your religious transition.
Finally, a HUGE thanks goes to Clint and Jeni Martin for underwriting this event.
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Well, welcome to our first presentation of this, you know, the gift of the Mormon faith crisis, |
| 0:14.6 | slash thrive retreat. The presentation that Natasha and I have been starting off with for four |
| 0:22.8 | years now, 40 plus presentations is a presentation around understanding and navigating or religious |
| 0:29.7 | transition. So this presentation is to help you orient where you've been, where you are, and where |
| 0:38.0 | you're going. Okay? It's not meant to be the gospel, but I think it does a good job of helping |
| 0:44.8 | orient you. So it's kind of like a road map. Is that all right? Okay. The main thing I, we want to |
| 0:52.6 | get across in this presentation is that a faith crisis is not some terrible personal, awful, |
| 1:00.2 | horrible thing that has happened to you as a victim. Okay? What we want to convey in this |
| 1:08.4 | presentation is that you're going through a universal experience that life intended you, and I |
| 1:17.2 | would even argue that religion intended you to go through. So you're not victims. I loved what |
| 1:24.2 | was said yesterday about, or maybe it was on a podcast I was listening to, where the victim stance |
| 1:29.9 | is the weakest stance. Like, there are victims in the world. We've all been victims, but you don't |
| 1:35.5 | want to assume the stance of a victim as your approach to life. You want to approach life as an |
| 1:42.0 | empowered, informed, powerful human being. And the way to do that is to move from a place of |
| 1:48.4 | victimhood to a place of empowerment. And that's kind of what this presentation is intended to do. |
| 1:55.1 | And what to add to this is that it's hugely developmental, and we are ongoingly developmental |
| 2:01.1 | creatures. We know a lot about development until the age of like 15, 16 as a lay audience, |
| 2:06.9 | but development continues into adulthood. So your 20s have certain developmental steps. Your 30s |
| 2:12.0 | have certain developmental steps. It doesn't escape my notice that most of the people we work with are |
| 2:17.6 | somewhat in the midlife arena. And so that's a very huge part of your developmental journey is to |
| 2:23.5 | start questioning where you come from. That's a normal thing to be doing. I also want to just say that |
| 2:29.2 | this whole presentation comes from a social science hat. So we are not here talking about religion, |
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