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Hal Runkel

Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist; Relationship Coach

Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist; Relationship Coach

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Virginia, USA
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Hal Runkel Biography

Hal Runkel is quickly becoming America's new expert on human relationships.

A Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist, relationship coach and extremely popular keynote speaker, Hal is the visionary founder and president of ScreamFree Living, Inc., the organization that is calming the world, one relationship at a time. Hal's newest book, ScreamFree Parenting: Raising Your Kids by Keeping Your Cool, was released in hardback internationally by both Broadway Books (secular) and Waterbrook Press (Christian) in September 2007. It attained New York Times bestseller status during its debut week.

Married for 14 years, Hal Runkel and his wife have two children, a boy and a girl. As both a husband and a father, Hal practices at home what he's preached to many thousands of families everywhere: the ScreamFree approach to relationships.

Hal, with an impressive academic and social science background, has taken the most advanced approaches to relationship theory and, through thousands of hours of family therapy, organizational consulting and professional coaching in organizations, churches, family businesses and schools, has developed the revolutionary ScreamFree Living methodology to truly revolutionize relationships. Hal Runkel now presents the ScreamFree relationship programs including ScreamFree Parenting, ScreamFree Marriage, ScreamFree Leadership and others to audiences nationwide through live presentations, teleconferences, Web seminars, newsletters and training classes.

He has presented workshops and talks on various subjects at regional, national and international conferences, as well as a variety of church/community settings. Subjects include: organizational dynamics, addictive behaviors, parenting & marriage, anger management, psychological and human systems assessment, and small group and team processes. He's spoken in corporate environments to clients such as Chick-fil-A and RJ Griffin, to clinical professional organizations such as Association for Marriage & Family Therapy annual conferences and pediatrician groups. Hal has spoken to PTA groups, church and community groups, bookstores and other leading organizations, and is now represented by Premiere Speakers Bureau.

Seen by millions on NBC's The Today Show (five guest appearances), iVillage Live (NBC) and CW's nationally syndicated The Daily Buzz, Hal is the founder and president of ScreamFree Living, Inc., as well as multiple newspapers and magazines nationwide. He travels coast-to-coast sharing his ScreamFree relationship programs with audiences using teleconferences, web seminars, newsletters, training classes, and the book series.

Hal is a member of the Family Firm Institute, the American Association for Marriage and Family Therapy and the Georgia Association for Marriage and Family Therapy. Before starting ScreamFree Living, Inc., Hal had a thriving therapy practice and also served as director of education for Covenant Counseling Institute in Snellville, Georgia.

The Houston native and Greater Atlanta resident earned his Masters in Marriage and Family Therapy (MMFT) in August 2000 from Abilene Christian University. His M.S. in Theological Studies was awarded in 1998.

Hal Runkel Speaking Topics

  • Scream-free Teaching

    Would it help you to understand how group dynamics play a role in your classroom? Would you like to know better ways of dealing with helicopter parents? Have you ever felt stretched too thin by the demands of your students, their parents and your own family? If you're like most teachers, your answers are yes, yes, and YES!

    ScreamFree Teaching is the prinicples based approach that will change the way you see your classroom. Moving beyond traditional child-centered and technique based methods of interaction, ScreamFree offers a fresh perspective and clinical insight as to what's really going on behind the scenes both in your classroom and in the homes of your students. Learn how to stay calm and connected through the principles of ScreamFree Living's latest prgram: ScreamFree Teaching.

  • Scream-free 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.

  • Scream-free Marriage

    The Seven Fires of Marriage

    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. 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.

  • Scream-free Parent Workshop

    Raising Your Kids by Keeping Your Cool. This life-changing 4 1/2-hour seminar will open your eyes to what parenting really should be about. 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. You will begin to operate less out of your deepest fears and more out of your highest principles, revolutionizing your relationships in the process. This in-depth, hands-on 1/2 day training session dives deep into all 11 principles of ScreamFree Parenting, leaving all attendees with the information they need to start their ScreamFree journey.

  • Scream-free Parenting

    Five Truths Every Parent Needs to Know

    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 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.

    This 90-minute seminar is perfect for a keynote address, outreach event for a church, school, or non-profit organization, or for a company lunch and learn or annual conference.

Hal Runkel Videos

  • ScreamFree Parenting Intro - YouTube
  • Hal Runkel- Ask Me Anything on friendship challenges - YouTube
  • ScreamFree Parenting by Hal Edward Runkel LMFT - YouTube

Hal Runkel Books

  • Screamfree Parenting: The Revolutionary Approach to Raising Your Kids by Keeping Your Cool
    Screamfree Parenting: The Revolutionary Approach to Raising Your Kids by Keeping Your Cool

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  • What topics does Hal Runkel speak about?

    Hal Runkel is a keynote speaker and industry expert whose speaking topics include Education, Empowerment, Faith & Religion, Inspirational, Motivation, Parenting, Personal Growth, Relationships.
  • Where does Hal Runkel travel from?

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Hal Runkel is a keynote speaker and industry expert who speaks on a wide range of topics such as Scream-free Teaching, Scream-free Leadership, Scream-free Marriage, Scream-free Parent Workshop and Scream-free Parenting. The estimated speaking fee range to book Hal Runkel for your event is $5,000 - $10,000. Hal Runkel generally travels from VA, USA and can be booked for (private) corporate events, personal appearances, keynote speeches, or other performances. Similar motivational celebrity speakers are Charlie Alejandro, Erin Gruwell, Barbara De Angelis, Julie Barnhill and Dr. Ken Druck. Contact All American Speakers for ratings, reviews, videos and information on scheduling Hal Runkel for an upcoming live or virtual event.

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