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So who's going to this in April?

Another guy form Ireland and I are going over, should be great.

The conference centre is booked out so we have to stay somewhere local, we're staying in the Legacy Aston Hotel booked through Hotels.com so if anyone else is going and hasn't booked a room it's dirt cheap and we'll be there!!!

This is the first I've heard of it.

Could you please post some details or a weblink?

Ta

Pete

The brochure transcribed. You owe me!!!

The Manchurian Approach

Hypnotism for Magicians

Open only to amateur and professional magicians and mentalists this unique course is aimed soley at perfomance hypnosis. As well as intensice classroom training we will be taking these skills to the street and public bars. You will gain the confidence, attitude, patter and techniques required to excel.

Concepts
-Become The Hypnotist. Learn and observation/attitude-based model.
-Learn how to perform hypnosis. Apply it to magic and mentalism.
-No history and theory lessons. Just tuition and practice.
-Mixture of classroom training and public performance.

Effects

Day One:
In intensive practical sessions everyone will learn a solid but flexible approach to hypnotizing. Training and supervised practice will continue in the afternoon on the street and in bars until late.

Intro; Subject Selection; Set Up; Set Piece; Inductions; Fractionation; Testing; Re-Induction; Suggestion; Catelepsy; Corpsing; Amnesia

Day Two:
Further classroom traing to cover in depth more specialized knowledge. This will be put in the context of typical magic settings including impromtu, street, walk around, stage and TV.

Hypno Forces; Hypno Peeks; Hallucinations; Control; Post Hypnotic Act; Managing reaction; Permanosis; Covert pre-show applications

Delivery
Intensive classroom training; Street and bar practical with the public.
Training Manual; DVD; Mentoring

The trainers are Anthony Jacquin and Kev Sheldrake
Details email enquiries at anthonyjacquin.com or call ...

Yep, im all booked up! can not wait!!!!!!!!! see you there

Okay, Google's giving me nowt. Can anyone tell me where and when??

I've never done any stage hypnotism, but I'd like to.

What I'm curious about is why is it if a stage hypnotist asks someone to do something the subject responds in an exaggerated, even cartoon fashion.

For example, the hypnotist saying "the audience is naked" elicits gurning and behaviour straight from a Benny Hill sketch, whereas if the audience were actually naked (I suspect: compare with the beach or say in a swimming pool where somene has a costume malufunction it certainly does not result in this sort of reaction), the response would more likely be one of surpise and discomfort. It's a little like if I ask a child to pretend to be asleep: they will snore loudly, breathe very deeply and deliberately and perhaps put thier palms together under their heads. Whereas when actually asleap they are quite still. If someone is told "you will be angry" they behave in a very bombastic, obvious, manner, rather than quietly seething which is behaviour I more normally observe with angry people (exceptions noted).

Why do people react in this way? Are they genuinley unable to empathise with how they would normally behave or are they (sub)consciously helping get the reaction they think they are supposed to get? or am I wrong?

Hi Pete,

thanks for your interest.

The next 'Manchurian Approach - Hypnotism for Magicians' course takes place on April 18th and 19th 2009 in Derby.

It was full but one person has dropped out due to an important gig popping up. So there is space if you

We will run another one in London in June.

The course has not been promoted on my website. If you want details I can email you a PDF.

Aporia - you have asked a good question. Firstly let me say that I have given suggestions had had completely muted reactions - more like a normal reaction to the sutuation being presented. It is not a given that the subject will do what they think they should do in an exaggerated fashion. However on stage if you listen to the language used by the hypnotist both on and off mic' it is normally geared toward firing up their response in an over the top fashion. Often they are whispering to the subject '10 times worse' 'even louder', 'you are so angry'.

Anthony

Right, finally recovered enough to post a report. All I can say is that it was excellent. I went already hypnotising people without issue so didn't get as much of a benefit out of it as some of the others but I still found it great. (The we is me and my mate Mike).

Friday we arrived at the hotel from the airport. Most people were staying in our hotel so we met them in the bar and had a few drinks with them. Went off to bed drunk.

Saturday we were all up early, course started at nine. Kev and Ant picked us up from the hotel and took us to the convention centre. The first half of the day focussed on magnetic fingers, magnetic hands, the eye fixation induction and the handshake induction. We ran the drills on each other and quickly discovered that one or two of the people were * easy to hypnotise and were in for a world of bullying later on... The teaching at this stage was great, everything was clearly explained and mistakes were corrected.

At around two we hit the town for lunch. After lunch we hit the streets and started hypnotising. Most people made an approach and got at least the set pieces. Lot of fun. I, stupidly, decided to approach the street preachers and got accused of doing the work of the devil, cue argument in which they even went as far to invoke Pascal's Wager. Funny stuff.

We then hit the bar, Revolution. This is when things went bad for the Chimp, Amit Beldani, one of the assistants, is renown apparently for bullying them. The poor guy was soon dancing (break and river), convinced he was Michael Jackson, hiding under a table because he thought he was naked, unable to see anyone else, unable to see stools which meant Ant was doing the most amazing 'levitations', forgetting stuff, orgasming any time anyone shook his hand, getting stuck to a lot of stuff and admitting things that may or may not be true but are still bloody funny. We had permission from the bar to approach guests so again most people did. Over the course of the evening I think everyone got somewhere.

Around 1.30 we headed back to the hotel. We hit the bar (after seeing if the 'massage parlour' around the corner was open for Amit) and drank some more. We went to bed around 3.30.

Up bright and early and seriously hungover on Sunday morning. Again Ant and Kev gave us a lift in. Sunday was much more relaxed with discussions of the night before and the use of hypnosis in magic, the chimp got bullied some more, Ant demoed an extraordinary effect and many other relaxed chats about hypnosis were had.

We left for the airport at five or so, Ant kindly gave us a lift in. Home at nine, two days to recover!

All in all a great weekend, worth every penny. Ant is an even nicer guy in the flesh than he is over the internet (though he is suprisingly short!!!)

how much was said course......now youve got me biting

Thanks for posting Harry. You have progressed swiftly in this art, are an excellent hypnotist and have a fun and creative mind. It was a pleasure to have you on the course and you are of course welcome to drop in on future courses.

Spudgun, the course costs 275 pounds and full details can be found on the training page at www.anthonyjacquin.com

Anthony

Can I quote that on my website!?

Is this the one in Derby? I have a sister living there. I would have expected around £400-£500 for this kind of hands on tutoring. I still haven't plucked up the courage to have a go, this coupled with lack of opportunity & still enjoying studying the book & dvd means I should really just jump in.

I could do with being hypnotised into having the guts really.

Russ

Just get off your *rse and do it!!! The course is excellent but I think if you went in having some experience you wouldn't get as much from it but you'd enjoy and understand it a lot more (if that makes sense to you). Just follow the scripts and believe you can do it and you'll be grand.

hey, Mike here, +1, this course has me very very excited since I got home, I cannot wait to practise some more.
Anthony is a legend, a great teacher, and a very helpful guy. Kev is, well, mad, but a genius and very funny. both helped me loads and made the course worth every penny and more. I wish I could stop them from teaching anyone else because I want to be the only one with this much power!

Thanks for the review. I have learned a termendous amount from Reality is Plastic and I am very much looking forward to attending one of the weekend workshops in the future.