1. The Difference between Therapy & Stage Hypnosis (Preamble)

2. Brief History of Hypnosis - Hypnosis Myths

3. What is Hypnosis in Relation to How the Brain Operates

4. Can Anyone Be Hypnotized or Only Certain People?

The fantasy Prone Personality
Can hypnotizability be modified

5. Hypnosis, Violation and Mind Control

Voluntary vs. Involuntary

6. Conscious vs. Unconscious

7. Presenting Suggestions to Make Them Effective

Timing – Repetition - Delivery
Increasing the Influence of Suggestions
Combining Suggestions
Training the Subject in General Responsiveness
Voluntary Actions to Increase Suggestibility
Deep Breathing to Increase Suggestibility
Counting Technique - Nonverbal Suggestions
Mass (Group) Suggestions

8. The Stage Show

9. Competent Qualities of a Stage Hypnotist

10. Opening Your Show

The Skeptics - The Observers - The Believers

11. Inside Secrets for Success

Expectancy - The Stage Situation
The Importance of Importance
Social Approval - No Challenge
Subject Responsibility - Group Size
Progressive Routines - One Thing at a Time ?
Use your best subjects
Keeping Subjects in Trance

12. Details to Help Make an Effective Show

Suggestibility Test - Volunteers
Stage Set Up - Using an Assistant
Ethics - Inductions (37 Different Ways)

13. Testing the Inductions - Ideas for Testing

14. Show Routines ( 300 Ideas)

15. Selected Bibliography ( 13 Pages)

1. The Decision - A Hobby - A Job - Just want to make some quick money - A Dream

2. Get Started - People want to believe in miracles and magic - Learn to believe in yourself as an entertainer - Limiting Yourself – Appearance - Equipment – Tools - Props - Music – Outfits - Promo Materials

3. Preparation of the Show (How to build a successful show)

0PENING - MIDDLE - ENDING

The psychological built of the show - Pre Show Settings - Ice Breakers - Re-hypnotizing the volunteers
Ease up the crowd, opening - Beginning - Suggestibility tests - How to mix kids and adults in the same show
Induction, (on visualization) developing different induction techniques - How to keep people in trance for long time
Middle (intermission) - One second induction - demonstration, practice - Ending (finale)

4. JUST HOW SAFE REALLY IS STAGE HYPNOSIS?

Video demonstration on clinical tests - You can manipulate the mind? Can you?
Are the people in full control of themselves while they are hypnotized in a stage show?
How come some people don't remember a thing what happened to them?
People wouldn't do things, what they wouldn't do normally, or would they?
The 3 levels of hypnotic trance - (Ericksonian Handouts)
How to handle Resistance, and still able to run a successful show! - Choices
Awakening the volunteers - Unintentional Posthypnotic Syndrome
How to give proper posthypnotic suggestions - Troubleshooting

5. Your Associates - The People

Selecting the people who is going to work for you (sound technician, manager, stagehand, catching people)
Selecting the venues where you are going to perform

6. Booking Agencies & how to deal with them - Which one should you work with

7. The power of selling your show - how to book your shows

8. Setting the legal side - insurance, contract, fees, exclusivity, charities

9. The absolute "No - No's in stage hypnosis, real live stories and video demonstrations of other hypnotists

CONCLUSION - Stage Hypnosis is safe, but it is the hypnotist responsibility to make it safe!

10. Personal Development

on personality plus – personal understanding and growth – comfort zone - how to win – what you don’t know, can hurt you – the secret of your future – 2 types of motivations – goal settings – evaluation – 3 essentials of highly successful people – learn how to love yourself – the dream
learning about the 4 personalities – how to deal with them – learn who you are
understanding human behaviors and their motivations – positive verses negative – the law of attraction – re-framing – the power of self-talk – creative visualization – association memory

11. All Technical Set-Up

with Attila's Soundtech (possibility in a live show setting on location)