Come join us for a deeply informative and interactive evening with Dr. David Hall for a Local Author Talk and Book Launch on Thursday, Nov 30 at 6 pm. This talk has been rescheduled from the previous date of 11/16.
Dr. Dave Hall will present a book talk on his recently published second book, Stop Arguing and Start Understanding: Nine Steps To Solving Family Conflicts, an updated second edition of SASU: Eight Steps to Solving Family Conflicts which adds a ninth step inviting families to reach out to help other families. Both books were written to help struggling families learn to listen to each other and creatively solve recurrent conflicts coming from the four roots to family conflict: temperament, mental disorders, family legacies, and current culture. He will field questions and lead a group discussion among participating audience members.
About the Author: Dr Hall is a graduate of Harvard College, and a third generation physician trained in Child Psychiatry at the University of Washington. He was in private practice in Seattle from 1983 to 2011 working with children, adolescents, and families. He left Seattle in 2011 when his wife the Rev. Anne Hall was called to Lopez Island as interim pastor for the Lutheran Church in the San Juans. He moved his practice to Island Hospital in Anacortes where he anchored the Psychiatry and Behavioral Health Clinic for ten years, retiring in 2021. He self-published his first book in 2001, Stop Arguing and Start Understanding: Eight Steps To Solving Family Conflicts, which won awards from the Publishers Marketing Association and Foreword Magazine. He recently published a second updated edition which adds a ninth step encouraging families who have done well with the first eight steps to reach out and advocate for other families. He recently received a Lifetime Achievement Award from Washington Physicians for Social Responsibility, and was national Physicians for Social Responsibility president in 1997. He and Anne married 53 years ago. They have two sons, five grandkids, a dog, two goats, fourteen chickens, 3 raccoons, and at least six deer. He plays tennis, ping pong, and pickleball, skis, and hikes, and is currently a Commissioner for the Lopez Island Hospital District.