|
How To Learn Comedy Stage Hypnosis |
Stage Hypnosis is something I have been interested in ever since I learned to hypnotize, which was in 1990. I learned hypnosis in the context of an NLP weekend seminar by John Overdurf and Julie Silverthorn. They were excellent teachers and I came away amazed at how easy hypnosis is to learn.
After that I did an NLP (Neurolinguistic Programming) practitioner course, and later I completed an NLP masterpractitioner certification, both with Richard Bolstad. Great, you might think – that was all it took. But no.
The truth is that having seen some stage hypno on TV, I still had never been to a show and had no real idea about how it really worked. Asking “how” is a useful question.
A few years later I stumbled across Ormond McGill’s “An Enclycopedia of Stage Hypnotism”, the first edition. It was a slim yellow book, and as I now realize, it was reasonably complete. After reading the book I still wasn’t exactly sure how to do a show, but I had better ideas and better questions. It was clear though that stage hypnosis is not like clinical hypnosis, especially as taught in NLP seminars. For one thing, in NLP you can pretty well take as much time as you like, and tailor the induction to the individual. But with a group on stage, and with a time constraint, there are significant differences.
From time to time I looked on the web for more information and training courses, etc. What I found was fairly dismal, and for the most part it still is. I did come across the greatly expanded second edition of Ormond McGill’s book, and it remains to me the best work on the subject. I have read other books, but they added little or nothing. I ordered some videos and they were crap. I won’t say where they were from, but they should have been great given the organisation’s pedigree. They were a waste of time and money. I literally threw them away.
I found a good course, though, in Canada, nearly halfway around the world, and it took some time to find. First a bit more about learning stage hypnosis from books. . . . |
|
Read more...
|
|
