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ScreamFree Parenting: Raising Your Kids by Keeping Your Cool, Introductory Seminar

The revolutionary, life-changing event that is sweeping the country. Our #1 offering.

ScreamFree Parenting is the principle-based approach that's inspiring parents everywhere to truly revolutionize their families. Moving beyond many of the child-centered, technique-based approaches, the ScreamFree way compels you to focus on yourself, grow yourself up, and calm yourself down. By staying both calm and connected with your kids, you begin to operate less out of your deepest fears and more out of your highest principles, revolutionizing your relationships in the process.

Duration: About 1 Hour, but customizable; Perfect for a keynote address

ScreamFree Parenting: Raising Your Kids by Keeping Your Cool, 1 - 2 Day Workshop

This breakthrough parenting workshop has already inspired parents in churches and organizations all across the country to create revolutionary changes in their homes. Unlike the typical child-focused and technique-based approaches to parenting, the ScreamFree way equips parents to operate from their highest principles while quieting their deepest fears.

This lively, interactive workshop goes in-depth into all 11 principles of ScreamFree Parenting and allows each participant to begin to internalize the ScreamFree message and start to put it into practice in their own lives.

Duration: About 4 hours, normally done on a weekend with a break for lunch.

ScreamFree Marriage: Calming Down, Growing Up, and Getting Closer, Introductory Seminar

Combining timeless principles, the foremost clinical research, and a LOL-speaking style, renowned relationship expert Hal Runkel presents a vision for intimate relationships unlike most everything you've ever heard.

ScreamFree Marriage is not about "fighting fair" or "meeting one another's needs" or "becoming more compatible." None of these can truly grow you as a person or improve your marriage. No, a ScreamFree Marriage begins with calming your own anxiety and focusing on individual self-respect, championing your own personal growth as the key to intimacy. ScreamFree Marriage actually celebrates the differences between you and your spouse as the foundation for a great marriage.Ý

Duration: About 1 hour; perfect for a keynote address.

ScreamFree Marriage: Calming Down, Growing Up, and Getting Closer, "Date Night" Workshop

Combining timeless principles, the foremost clinical research, and a LOL-speaking style, renowned relationship expert Hal Runkel presents a vision for intimate relationships unlike most everything you've ever heard.

ScreamFree Marriage is not about "fighting fair" or "meeting one another's needs" or "becoming more compatible." None of these can truly grow you as a person or improve your marriage. No, a ScreamFree Marriage begins with calming your own anxiety and focusing on individual self-respect, championing your own personal growth as the key to intimacy. ScreamFree Marriage actually celebrates the differences between you and your spouse as the foundation for a great marriage.Ý

• Learn once and for all why you cannot make your spouse happy.
• Stop blaming your spouse for your unhappiness.
• Learn how to take responsibility for your own emotions, taking the courage to examine your own anxiety and discover the type of intimacy you've always craved.
• See why compromise and communication training actually make things worse.
• Experience the joy of taking care of yourself and watching your marriage grow as a result.

Duration: About 3 hours, typically delivered on a Friday evening in "date night" format with dinner service

ScreamFree Liftoff: Launching from Teenager to Adulthood

Parents and their teenagers truly crave great relationships with each other ‚ they just don't know what that's supposed to look like once the "launching" process begins. This entertaining and relationship-changing seminar leads parents and teens alike into a new vision for their immediate future together (and apart). Parents will learn to rise above the typical battles of adolescence and actually become a calming influence in their teenager's chaotic lives while teenagers will learn to love the idea of launching into responsible adulthood, actually seeking their parents' help along the way.Ý Most importantly, both groups leave with a renewed desire to create the very relationships with each other they've always craved.

Duration: About 45 minutes

Is There a Doctor in the House?: What Pediatricians Should Know About Family Systems and Family Symptoms

In this engaging and entertaining seminar, nationally-acclaimed family therapist and bestselling author of ScreamFree Parenting, Hal Runkel, challenges pediatricians to know their place in the family. As the first resource for parents struggling with their child's symptoms (both physical and behavioral), pediatricians are in a unique position to help defuse family anxiety and differentiate between fact and worry-filled fiction. If not careful, however, occupying this position can also put doctors in a triangle between parent/child, parent/parent, and parent/school system. By first defusing their own anxiety, and differentiating themselves from the anxious family, pediatricians can provide the calm leadership every family needs. This is what Hal calls becoming a ScreamFree doctor, a needed professional who can become fully involved with their patients without becoming fully consumed by their crises.Ý

Participants will learn:

• how to recognize parents' efforts to triangulate the doctor within their anxious systems
• how to treat the child's symptoms and the whole family system at the same time
• how to calm their own anxiety in order to become the calmest one in the room, and thus, the most influential
• how to discern when and how to refer a family to a therapist

Duration: About 1 hour; perfect for a keynote address. Intended for medical professionals only.

ScreamFree Living: What it Means to be an Adult

Growing up is hard to do especially for grown-ups! This entertaining and insightful talk is perfect as a guest sermon for your congregation, as an outreach event, or for parenting and family groups. Listeners will enjoy the challenge to examine both their reactions and their overreactions. The ScreamFree Living concepts help people laugh at themselves while learning how to apply principles to create calm in the world around them.Ý

Duration: About 45 minutes; perfect for a keynote address

ScreamFree Leadership: Becoming the Calming Authority Your Organization Needs

The central question of leadership is this: How do leaders motivate their people to motivate themselves? How can leaders leverage their authority to create a system that heightens self-direction and engenders shared responsibility? In this engaging and entertaining presentation, Hal Runkel, the best-selling and award-winning author of ScreamFree Parenting: Raising Your Kids by Keeping Your Cool, shows how leaders outside the home can effect powerful and substantial change by effectively managing themselves. ScreamFree Leadership shifts the focus to the main factor that matters, the leader's own emotional reactivity. By learning to keep calm, the ScreamFree leader learns to share both the power and the pressures of leadership, inviting others to discover their own investment in the organization's success.

ScreamFree Leadership inspires individuals, team, and organizations to operate at the peak of efficiency, productivity, and passion. By developing in each team member a profound understanding of how relationship systems really work, ScreamFree Leadership enables each individual to take hold of his/her own emotional reactivity and truly become the calming authority every organization needs.

• Learn how the "self-centered" leader actually has the best chance of effecting powerful change and results
• Experience the power of The Leader's Pause, that moment that leads you from emotional reaction to principled response
• See how compromise, accommodation, and "being a team player" are actually the leader's worst enemies
• Learn how patterns, not personalities, determine behavior (and learn how to change those patterns)

Duration: About 1 Hour; perfect for a keynote address

ScreamFree Teaching: Managing Your Classroom by Managing Yourself