tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-67228586470581614742024-03-05T16:29:31.556-05:00Mind Play: Wiseguy's erotic hypnosis blogA blog by Wiseguy, erotic hypnotist, presenter, and author of erotic fiction and the <i>Mind Play</i> series of erotic hypnosis guides.Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05223401023663132907noreply@blogger.comBlogger49125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6722858647058161474.post-49633669594736716532017-09-06T20:08:00.004-04:002017-09-11T20:17:45.000-04:00New and Improved<br /><br />The revised 2017 edition of Mind Play: A Guide to Erotic Hypnosis is now available on Amazon in print and Kindle editions, and on Smashwords. <br /><br />If you already own Mind Play this is still the same book, but I’ve taken the opportunity to fix some things that have been bothering me and others:<br /><ul>
<li>Complete rewrite of the Ethics section to meet modern community standards, which have evolved a lot since 2013.</li>
<li>Updated the Resources chapter to include new events, sources, and communities that didn’t exist back then.</li>
<li>Went through the entire book, from the Obligatory Warnings and Disclaimers on, to make it more inclusive for people of all genders, body types, and abilities.</li>
<li>A bunch of typos that slipped past my eyes have been hunted down and corrected.</li>
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I could not have done this without the help of Daja and SpiralTurquoise, so if you like the changes please give them credit. If you see something I should have changed but didn’t, I’ll own that and we’ll fix it in less than four years.Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05223401023663132907noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6722858647058161474.post-5834317919664136132017-08-07T17:52:00.003-04:002017-08-07T17:52:33.090-04:00So ... much ... teaching!!I have a lot going on in the next few months, starting later this week.<br />
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We Have Ways of Making You Talk</h4>
sponsored by NEDS and NEHG<br />
Friday, 8/11, 7:30-9:30pm in Waltham, MA<br />
(<a href="https://fetlife.com/events/572229" target="_blank">FetLife event link</a>)<br />
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There is nothing quite like a well-run interrogation scene. As a top, interrogations will challenge your creativity and ingenuity; as a bottom, they give you a chance to safely place yourself into an extreme situation. In this class we will go over the essential elements of an interrogation scene, including how to negotiate it and logistical considerations. Then Wiseguy delves into tactics for interrogators and how hypnosis can be used to turn up the intensity and effectiveness of information-extracting techniques. The class concludes with a demonstration scene plotted with the assistance and suggestions of the audience.<br />
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Unscripted: Erotic Hypnosis on the Fly</h4>
sponsored by the Manchester NH hypnosis group<br />
Saturday 8/12, 7:30-9:30pm in Manchester, NH<br />
(<a href="https://fetlife.com/events/580854" target="_blank">FetLife event link</a>)<br />
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To many beginners, hypnosis is something you do by rote: they perform the induction from the script they memorized, then deepen, then use the words they learned to produce whatever hypnotic effect has been negotiated. And this mostly works, in a fashion. But the best hypnotists are those who use communication and observation to fit their approach to the mind(s) they are playing with. This class is all about learning to do that.<br />
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Fall 2017 Professional Hypnotherapy/NLP Certification</h4>
September - November 2017<br />
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Would you like to be a certified professional hypnotist and NLP practitioner? Would you like to learn those skills in an online environment with fellow kinky people, taught by me? This is your next opportunity.<br />
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The course is the same one I’ve been teaching to kinky groups twice a year since late 2014. Those who graduate and pass the final exam earn:<br />
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<li>Professional certification with the National Guild of Hypnotists</li>
<li>Professional certification with the National Federation of Neurolinguistic Programming</li>
<li>Really impressive-looking certificates, suitable for framing</li>
<li>The right to wear the Wiseguy Certified badge ribbon at events</li>
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Classes will begin in September and run through November, skipping holidays and dates when I am already committed to be somewhere else. <a href="mailto:wiseguy35@gmail.com" target="_blank">Email me</a> and I’ll send you a course syllabus and details about the how, the where, the when, and the how much.<br />
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<br />Erotic Hypnosis Weekend Intensive</h4>
Sponsored by TES<br />
Friday - Sunday, 9/22-9/24 in New York City<br />
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TES and I are teaming up to do something exciting and a little different. On Friday night we'll do an Erotic Hypnosis Jump Start -- a beginner-friendly intensive designed to take someone from total beginner to a good working understanding of the fundamentals of erotic hypnosis. On Saturday we'll do a 5-hour intensive workshop for people with some experience (including Friday night graduates) who want to take their skills to the next level. Then, on Sunday, I will be available for 5 hours for private sessions in which I can answer questions, provide coaching, hypnotize people, or whatever you wish -- it's your time and your agenda.<br />
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I'm also presenting at <b>WEEHU</b> in October. See you on the road!<br />
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<br />Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05223401023663132907noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6722858647058161474.post-3932048196633174232017-06-10T15:12:00.002-04:002017-06-10T15:14:34.720-04:00My TES Fest Agenda<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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The draft schedule for TES Fest 2017 is up. Here are the classes I'm teaching at the event:</div>
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<b>Induction Starter Kit</b> (Friday 6/30, 5:15pm)</div>
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New hypnotists often find themselves relying on memorized and/or scripted inductions, which sucks a lot of the fun out of hypnotizing people. This class is all about some basic inductions that are built from simple processes that are easy to learn and replicate, without any reliance on "magic" wording or complex manipulations. Good for anyone who struggles with inductions or wants to learn some new ones. </div>
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<b>Making It Stick</b> (Saturday 7/1, noon)</div>
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A lot of hypnotists find that sometimes it's hard to get a suggestion to really take hold in their partner's mind. In this class I'll explain some of the reasons this can happen, demonstrate techniques for helping to seat suggestions in your partner's mind, and discuss what to do when, despite your best efforts, the suggestion still doesn't seem to work as intended. </div>
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<b>Deeper, Faster, Easier</b> (Sunday 7/2, noon)</div>
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Being hypnotized is an ability that improves with skill and practice. This session is for those who want to be better at going into trance, either for themselves or when playing with a hypnotist. Attendees will learn and practice practical tips and exercises for going into trance more easily, more deeply, and more quickly for any hypnotist they choose to play with.</div>
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<b>Hypnotic Anesthesia and Enhanced Sensation</b> (Monday 7/3, 3:45pm)</div>
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Learn how to use hypnosis to control and alter your partner's body sensations. We will discuss and demonstrate techniques to reduce sensation (anesthesia) as well as to enhance and manipulate it, all for fun and erotic purposes.</div>
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Mind you, there are lot of other awesome presenter teaching hypnosis classes at TES Fest. Look through <a href="https://www.tesfest.org/event-schedule-2/" target="_blank">the schedule</a> and you'll see:</div>
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<li>Zany Danger</li>
<li>MrDream</li>
<li>D'Artagnan</li>
<li>Baron Voltage</li>
<li>Jaden</li>
<li>Pinky</li>
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And that's just the hypnosis-related presenters -- there is a whole more to explore and enjoy at TES Fest. Hope to see you there.</div>
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<br />Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05223401023663132907noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6722858647058161474.post-41091499167136458212017-02-23T18:24:00.000-05:002017-02-23T18:24:34.198-05:00Who Wants to be a Professional Hypnotist?Twice a year I hold a certification course in professional hypnotism/hypnotherapy and NLP for people in the kink community. The Spring 2017 session will be starting in April.<br />
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This course combines professional hypnosis and professional NLP. Participants who complete the course and pass the final exam will be certified by both the National Guild of Hypnotists (NGH) and the National Federation of Neurolinguistic Programming (NFNLP). We meet online for 100 hours of combined classroom and independent study, with class sessions held on weekend dates spread across about a 3-month period because we all have lives and busy schedules. <br />
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Tuition for the course is $1295, payable in installments. If you'd like the detailed syllabus and class information, send me an email (wiseguy35@gmail.com) and I'll share.<br />
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<br />Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05223401023663132907noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6722858647058161474.post-4695730331704034632017-02-17T07:54:00.004-05:002017-02-17T07:54:59.745-05:00Off to the FleaI'm off this morning for Providence, RI, for NELA's annual <a href="https://nelaonline.org/fetish-fair-fleamarket/winter-fleamarket" target="_blank">Fetish Fair Flea</a>. This event keeps getting bigger and more interesting, and it's great to be a part of it.<br />
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This year's Flea features an expanded Hypnosis Lounge, where people can come in to ask questions, practice things, get hypnotized, or just hang out and enjoy the goings-on. The Lounge is open from 7-9pm tonight (Friday 2/17), 10am-6pm Saturday, and 10am-6pm Sunday and is sponsored and supervised by my friends in the New England Hypnosis Group. We'll be doing a number of scheduled demos and lots of improvised tutoring and hypnotizing throughout the Lounge time.<br />
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There are also scheduled classes, of course. My dear friend ZanyM is teaching "Doll Play" at 10pm tonight and "This Feels So Good: Bodywork Techniques for BDSM & Trance" on Saturday at 1pm. I'm teaching "Erotic Hypnosis 101" tonight (7:45-9:15) and "Use Your Words" Saturday morning (9:00 - 10:30am). Hypnosis aside, the Flea is also a chance to learn from well-known names like Midori, Sir Vice and soumise, and of course the incomparable Team Blue.<br />
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Hypnation.org Forum is Live</h3>
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As part of the ongoing project to provide trustworthy alternatives to FetLife, <a href="http://hypnation.org/">Hypnation.org</a> has just opened a <a href="https://forum.hypnation.org/" target="_blank">brand new forum</a> for use by the community. It's just getting started, so sign up and be part of the shaping of this new community asset.</div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05223401023663132907noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6722858647058161474.post-26564256769764187892017-01-23T17:15:00.000-05:002017-01-23T17:15:17.403-05:00Sturm und DrangIt's been a heck of a new year so far, hasn't it? Let's start with the good stuff.<br />
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Charmed! 2017</h2>
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If you were one of the almost 220 people who attended Charmed! 2017, you know how well things went. If you weren't, make it a point to join us next year because you missed a lot!</div>
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<li>Having Lady Ru'etha and Jukebox with us; it was SO good to see them!</li>
<li>Hearing from so many people at the event about what a great time they were having</li>
<li>The Sunday UnConference</li>
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We've gotten a ton of great feedback on the classes, but there is still time to add yours. Just go to the <a href="https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/153jSTb7mSFXibd-mX054LYYL06brtJuuc1fkf3vTHqI/edit?ts=5868830b#gid=0" target="_blank">Charmed! 2017 Online Schedule Grid</a> and find a class you want to comment about -- each class name is a link to a feedback form specific to that class.</div>
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Winter Wickedness 2017</h2>
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If you live anywhere near central Ohio, I hope you'll come out to <a href="http://www.adventuresinsexuality.org/WICKED/home.html" target="_blank">Winter Wickedness 2017</a> (February 3-5 in Columbus, OH). This will be my first time at Wicked, and I'm told to expect nothing but a blast. I'm doing two classes ("All the Way Down" and "Erotic Hypnosis 101") and hoping to introduce a lot of new people to safe, responsible hypnokink.</div>
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And then there's the not-so-good stuff ...</div>
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FetLife Betrayal</h2>
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You probably already know that FetLife arbitrarily destroyed hundreds of groups and fetishes whose names contained certain words that FetLife felt were linked to nonconsensual or dangerous behavior and were allegedly responsible for the loss of their merchant accounts, which they need to take credit card payments. One of those forbidden words is <i>hypnosis</i>. In one evening FetLife carpet-bombed our community and destroyed most of the online history we had accumulated to that point, and we've been promised that FetLife's censors will be back soon to eliminate more material that relates to the forbidden concepts.</div>
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Since FetLife clearly does not want our participation (or, it seems, the advertising revenue and donations that come with it) anymore, community leaders are mobilizing to get alternate communication channels into place. </div>
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For starters, take a good look at <a href="https://hypwatch.com/" target="_blank">HypWatch</a> which started up about a year ago and is run by well-known members of the community. </div>
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To keep informed on the upcoming erotic hypnosis events, visit <a href="http://www.hypnation.org/" target="_blank">hypnation.org</a> regularly, as well as the individual event websites for (in date order):</div>
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<li><a href="http://charmedhypno.org/" target="_blank">Charmed!</a></li>
<li><a href="https://www.blogger.com/">London Hypnosis Workshop</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.neehu.org/" target="_blank">NEEHU</a></li>
<li><a href="http://jeffmachevents.org/hypnosisinthecatskills/" target="_blank">Hypnosis in the Catskills</a></li>
<li><a href="http://entrancedcon.org/" target="_blank">Entranced</a></li>
<li><a href="http://deepminddarkwood.com/index.html" target="_blank">Deep Mind Dark Wood</a></li>
<li><a href="http://weehu.org/" target="_blank">WEEHU</a></li>
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This community is strong; as long as we keep communicating we can keep growing.</div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05223401023663132907noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6722858647058161474.post-70604584813291475322016-11-30T19:23:00.001-05:002016-11-30T19:23:54.533-05:00The home stretch for Charmed! 2017<a href="https://charmedhypno.org/" target="_blank">Charmed! 2017</a> is only about 45 days away now. Have you made your reservations yet?<br />
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This year's program is shaping up to be outstanding. As I write this, we have 78 classes on the roster from 32 different presenters. Once again we have a great mix of well-known and established presenters from inside our community and new faces with new perspectives to share. <br />
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Do you have a class you'd like to teach? There are still slots open; <a href="https://charmedhypno.org/programming/" target="_blank">send your proposal</a> before space runs out. <br />
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I'm very excited to be able to say that Charmed! 2017 will feature a full-time Practice Lab. All day, every day (except during Unconference time), you can come into the Lab and practice something you just learned, get coaching or help from experienced hypnotists and hypnotees, or just hang out and watch people practice. There may be informal demos from time to time as well.<br />
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Hope to see you in Baltimore.<br />
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<br />Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05223401023663132907noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6722858647058161474.post-3157657900006641602016-10-09T09:54:00.001-04:002016-10-09T09:54:47.350-04:00Charmed! 2017 is coming!By now you've hopefully seen the announcements on FetLife and elsewhere, but in case you haven't ... <a href="https://charmedhypno.org/" target="_blank">Charmed!</a> is coming back to Baltimore this coming January 13-15.<br />
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We have an exciting new venue this year right in Baltimore's Inner Harbor, easy to get to and right in the middle of all kinds of food and fun options -- though we intend to keep you too busy to do a lot of exploring. <br />
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Charmed! 2017 will offer an even larger variety of classes and workshops than last year. We plan on at least 120 hours of scheduled programming plus our traditional Sunday Unconference time, where anyone can present and everyone is welcome to participate. We're excited to be offering two new programming tracks this year:<br />
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<li><b>Relationships</b> -- All about using erotic hypnosis in the context of a long-term relationship. Any kind of lasting relationship counts here.</li>
<li><b>Deep Dives</b> -- With all this space and time, we want to give people the opportunity to really explore some topics in detail. These two-hour classes are delivered by great presenters on topics they love to teach. </li>
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In order to fulfill our vision for Charmed! 2017, of course, we're going to need people who want to teach. We love bringing in new presenters and giving our community leaders and top teachers the space to express themselves and educate everyone. <a href="http://charmedhypno.org/presenters/" target="_blank">Sign up to present at Charmed!</a> before December 1 and take advantage of this opportunity to star in what might be the largest erotic hypnosis event of the year.</div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05223401023663132907noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6722858647058161474.post-38908363461174767202016-06-22T09:40:00.000-04:002016-06-22T09:40:04.394-04:00Professional Training This FallI mentioned back in the spring that I was planning to offer a professional hypnotism "boot camp" style certification program in late July. Well, it's time to make it official.<br />
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Professional Hypnosis and NLP Boot Camp Online</h2>
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If you want to become a certified, professional hypnotist and can devote an entire week to study, practice, and training, then mark you calendar for the first week of August. </div>
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From July 31 through August 7, I'll be teaching my combined National Guild of Hypnotists (NGH) and National Federation of Neurolinguistic Programming (NFNLP) professional certification course in a boot camp style format. Each day we will spend most of the day in classroom format, using lecture and discussion, and then toward the end of the day we will practice the skills presented in that day's class time.</div>
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The course covers, in depth, the following topics:</div>
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<li>History and nature of hypnosis</li>
<li>Over 20 different inductions</li>
<li>Techniques for assessing and increasing depth</li>
<li>Formulating and delivering suggestions</li>
<li>Self Hypnosis</li>
<li>Understanding Neurolinguistic Programming and how it dovetails with hypnosis</li>
<li>Understanding human behavior and methods for modifying it</li>
<li>Recognizing and handling abreactions</li>
<li>Hypnotic regression</li>
<li>Parts therapy</li>
<li>Strategies for using hypnosis and NLP to help clients with:</li>
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<li>Stress management</li>
<li>Fear and worry/anxiety</li>
<li>Smoking cessation</li>
<li>Weight loss</li>
<li>Improving sleep</li>
<li>Academic performance</li>
<li>Pain management</li>
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<li>Establishing and running your professional hypnosis/NLP practice</li>
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Students who complete the course and pass the final exam will be certified with both the NGH and NFNLP. These credentials are widely recognized in the field and are sufficient in most jurisdictions to begin a professional practice. </div>
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To make this training available to a wider audience and to keep the cost down, the course will be held online via Cisco Webex. We will "meet" virtually for the classroom work, and then each participant will need a volunteer for the practice time. I will monitor and observe the practice via webcam/mic to give suggestions and feedback.</div>
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In order to participate in this course, you will need:</div>
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<li>The ability to devote an entire week, including the enclosing weekends, to the course. Because of the compressed format, there really isn't any opportunity to make up missed material.</li>
<li>A demo volunteer that you can practice with every day. It doesn't have to be the same person each day; variety is good.</li>
<li>A volunteer "client" for your final exam, which is a practical in which you will conduct a complete start-to-finish hypnotherapy session for a real issue that your volunteer wants help with.</li>
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Your investment for the program of $1295 covers your class tuition, books and materials, and includes your first year of membership in NGH and NFNLP, along with all of the benefits that go with that. Financing options are available.</div>
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To take part in this compressed program, contact me by email (wiseguy35@gmail.com) before July 15, 2016.</div>
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Online Professional Hypnosis and NLP Training (weekend format)</h2>
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If your schedule doesn't suit the boot camp format, my next weekend course will start up at the end of August. This course covers the same content as the boot camp, but spread out across 10 weekend days to make it easier to fit into a modern busy schedule.</div>
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As with the boot camp, class is conducted online via Webex; you will need a suitable computer, volunteers to practice on, and a "client" for your final exam. The same $1295 covers tuition, books, materials, and your first year's membership in NGH and NFNLP.</div>
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The actual class dates will be set once we have a full group so that we can minimize schedule conflicts, but the general timeframe will be between 8/27 and 10/30. Contact me by email (wiseguy35@gmail.com) by July 31 to confirm your seat.</div>
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<br />Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05223401023663132907noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6722858647058161474.post-45089944290713679082016-04-23T09:58:00.000-04:002016-04-23T09:58:34.331-04:00Catching UpWow ... I just realized I haven't updated this blog since November. Yeesh! There's been a lot going on. <br />
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First, of course, was <a href="http://charmedhypno.org/" target="_blank">Charmed!</a> back in January. It was our first year, and I think we hit about 185 total people in attendance. The energy was amazing, and I'm proud to have been part of bringing the con to the Baltimore/DC area.<br />
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In February I taught at the NELA Fetish Fair Flea along with my friends MrDream and ZanyM. For the first time, we had an Erotic Hypnosis Lounge running for most of the event and a lot of really cool stuff happened in there courtesy of people like AmHypnotic, MentalConfetti, Hypnostory, Ariadne, Maamaine, and others. Really hoping that becomes an annual happening (the lounge, of course -- the Flea already is).<br />
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March brought <a href="http://www.neehu.org/" target="_blank">NEEHU</a>, which meant a return to The Society and a chance to reunite with the community. Many, many awesome things happened there, much of which has been written about already by others. Some personal highlights for me included the workshop that MrDream and I did to help new presenters develop class ideas and co-teaching Erotic Hypnosis 101 with Ariadne.<br />
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Last week I visited with Hypnosis New Jersey and spent an afternoon doing Kinky Human Tricks and some mentored practice time. It's really amazing how fast that New Jersey group is growing; Moon-Gazer and pinupknits have built something awesome there.<br />
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In a couple of hours I'm presenting for my hometown Black Rose SIG on "Making It Stick" -- an extended discussion, demo, and practice session about why, and what to do when, a suggestion just isn't getting followed. This will be an extended version of one of the classes I'm offering at <a href="http://www.meehu.org/" target="_blank">MEEHU</a> later this year.<br />
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There is a lot coming up, too. Tomorrow is the first instructional day for my first in-person professional hypnotism course. Six people from the DC metro area, who are also members of the erotic hypnosis community, will be getting certified as professional hypnotists and NLP practitioners over the course of the next 8 weeks or so.<br />
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Some of you know that I'm a pretty serious hobbyist woodworker; most of the photos I post on FetLife are of things I've made in my garage workshop. In May I'm treating myself to a rare non-working vacation as I attend Weekend with WOOD in Des Moines, IA. I'll be there in my Bruce Wayne identity just for the fun of attending. Before I return, though, I'm going to take advantage of the proximity to Mephki's new home and do a workshop for the brand-new <a href="https://fetlife.com/groups/138565" target="_blank">Iowa City hypnosis group</a>. <br />
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Come June, I'll be at MEEHU 3 along with a long list of amazing and delightful people; if you haven't been to an *EHU yet, this is a great one to start with. (Warning: may be habit forming!) <br />
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I'm looking to assemble another in-person professional hypnosis course in July, this time in "boot camp" style: eight days of instruction, Saturday to Saturday, with the final exam at the end. I'm looking for a venue in the New York City area; if I can find one that won't drive up the class cost we'll do it in person, otherwise we'll do the class online. Looking at the latter half of July, probably July 16-23. Let me know if you're interested or have venue suggestions.<br />
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My next for-sure online class will start in late August and run until probably early October (dates are not finalized until we know who all is attending). This one will be in the original format, online and spread over several weeks.<br />
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It's early yet, but I fully intend to be on hand at WEEHU 2016 and hope a lot of you will be as well. There are a couple of other things that aren't confirmed yet. I've got an invitation to go teach in Seattle when we can find a date that works, and I want to do something as-yet-undetermined with TES before the year is out because I love working with them. So stay tuned.<br />
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<br />Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05223401023663132907noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6722858647058161474.post-57586239151499939902015-11-01T17:14:00.004-05:002015-11-01T17:14:46.193-05:00WEEHU 2015 HighlightsWEEHU 2015 was, as always, amazing. The only reason it's taken me this long to write about it is other commitments, many of which are far less fun. <br />
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This year's WEEHU featured a new venue, still in the San Francisco area but outside of downtown, and followed the everything-under-one-roof model that MEEHU made popular. I am a huge fan of that model because it's extremely convenient. <br />
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Dani and I flew in Thursday to make sure we wouldn't have a repeat of last year, when I missed the first two classes I was supposed to teach because of flight delays. Despite having an early afternoon flight we still managed to get held up enough that we missed the "early bird" dinner, but there were friends all over and it was a good pre-WEEHU evening.<br />
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Friday was a day for teaching and meeting the many new people who were enjoying their first WEEHU. I got to open the educational part of the weekend with my "The Art of Teaching," the class about teaching classes, and then moved on to team up with LeeAllure in a workshop on mutual hypnosis. I had a brief break and then did "Kinky Human Tricks," which is still my favorite class because it never fails to be different each time. <br />
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The Friday night play party was a low-key affair. The organizers arranged for separate play areas for noisier/higher-intensity play (which was where the dungeon equipment was located) and quieter play or aftercare, and that formula seems to work very well. There was more socializing going on that first night than overt public play, at least in the open areas, so it was easy to float around and mix with people. I took an hour shift as a Dungeon Monitor on the quieter (mostly hypnoplay) side and there was no drama.<br />
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By Saturday WEEHU was in full swing. The classrooms were packed and the hallways jammed with happy people. I had a full room for "Erotic Hypnosis 101" and then a free period, which I ended up spending with a couple I met in the 101 who had questions and wanted a private hypnosis session for the submissive, which I was happy to do. Next I joined LizziDoll, DJ Pynchon, ZanyMo, and Shaman58 for EnScenic's Erotic Writers' Panel, which was all kinds of fun, and then taught "Use Your Words" to an appreciative group. After a little more one-on-one coaching Dani and I had dinner and hustled back.<br />
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Saturday night started for me my first-ever room trance. I'd seen them done before, but this was the first time I'd led one myself. We had a little trouble getting the group assembled -- a combination of late returns from dinner and confusion over where the room trance would be -- but we overcame that and got going in earnest.<br />
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I'm a big believer in negotiation and consent, so before doing the actual trance I made full disclosure of what the nature of the suggestions would be and what I expected of those who chose not to participate in the trance (basically, not to disrupt or interfere). I asked for consent for touch, as I often use touch in erotic trances, and gave out pink ribbons for people who preferred not to be touched to remind me of that. Then I went around the room asking for positive consent for the trance as described from each participant and started the actual session.<br />
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One of the challenges of hypnotizing a bunch of people together is that you can't stop, rewind, or adjust to each individual the way you can one-on-one. One way to compensate is to do extra deepening so the ones who are less responsive to the induction can have a little more time to settle into trance; the risk of that is that some people may get overly zonked in the process. I started with an overload style induction based on the "Nine things" formula I outline in <i>The Mind Play Study Guide</i> and then spent a few minutes in improvised deepening to help the stragglers catch up. I went around and gave a few people shoulder touches to help drop them down and noted that most of the group looked like they were in a good place to continue.<br />
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For the suggestion part of the trance, I started by suggesting a sense of mental openness, in which they felt their minds opening up to the idea of accepting suggestions. Since there tend to be a lot of Doctor Who fans in an *EHU audience, I brought up the concept of the Zero Room as a place of safety, where the mind can be at complete peace, defenses down. Then I invited them to imagine the patterns of neurons in their own brains firing in sequences, lighting up and going dim, creating constantly-changing patterns -- a sort of imaginary eye fixation intended to get them focused internally.<br />
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From there, I transitioned into eliciting a general state of arousal and openness to pleasure. We increased that gradually, just until I could see some signs of arousal in a few of the higher-responding participants, then mixed in related emotions like lust, pleasure, excitement, and sexiness. Next, I suggested that in addition to having these feelings my participants could become highly attuned to those same feelings and emotions in the people around them. I brought in another geeky reference: the way a Cylon's spine glows with energy when they become aroused (this is from the remade <i>Battlestar Galactica</i>, of course), and suggested that the spine, which connects the brain with the body, can be like a highly sensitive antenna, picking up on the sexual energies in the area and transmitting those to your own brain, so that each person can share in the sexual energies of those around them, becoming aroused whenever they are near people who are aroused, and then in turn transmitting that to others. We kept on that theme for a few minutes, creating in each person's mind that concept that for the rest of WEEHU their antenna was active, and that they would feel arousal, pleasure, excitement, etc. from being in the vicinity of others who felt those things. I also added in that this could give them the freedom to explore, to play, to experiment with things they were curious about, always within their personal limits.<br />
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Then, while they absorbed and acted on that (and I could see them feeding off each other's arousal and pleasure, which was a good sign), I gave them suggestions about readily absorbing and internalizing the information and techniques they were learning in their classes, so that the material is easy to recall and use whenever they need it. Finally, I brought my group back still feeling that general sense of arousal, and basked in their happy smiles. <br />
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The room trance went really well, and people told me they enjoyed it a great deal. (If you're an *EHU organizer reading this, I would love to do that again in the future!)<br />
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I did another tour of DM duty during the Saturday night party. It was a very easy, pleasant duty because everyone was well-behaved and considerate of everyone else, at least on my end (the quiet end). I didn't hear of any incidents in the high-intensity areas, so I'm forced to conclude that *EHU goers are awesome. One thing that was particularly interesting to witness, while on duty, was a negotiation for someone's first rope scene. The negotiation was textbook, covering all of her questions and defining what the scene would be about -- a combination of rope and trance -- and the scene itself was extremely well conducted. <br />
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Sunday brought more classes, some of which were new for me. First thing I got to team up with my friend Dr. Headcrash for a class on resistance play. Headcrash and I come at it from different angles, so being able to combine our perspectives and provide several short, hot demos in the process made for a riveting class. We will do this one again at Charmed! in January.<br />
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Another new class, which I developed at panavatar's request, was one on hypnotic anesthesia and sensation play. It went very well; I had a great volunteer to demo with and the audience had lots of great questions and thoughts. <br />
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After the community leaders' roundtable, Dani and I got together to teach about dual inductions. There wasn't a lot of enthusiasm for breaking up into small groups, so we had a few people come up and practice it in front of the audience. One of our demo volunteers was the person who'd had that rope scene the night before; when it was her turn to be the hypnotee, I whispered a few hints to one of the volunteer hypnotists about reminding her of that experience, and the results were very satisfying all around. I love it when stuff like that happens! <br />
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For the last class period of WEEHU, panavatar and I teamed up for another new class that we developed together: "Hypnotizing Your Dom as a Form of Service". It's a topic I've been asked about at other events and it was a pleasure to present on it with panavatar, who has a lot of natural talent. We talked about the ways a submissive can effectively do hypnosis, with permission and consent, from the bottom without disrupting the power dynamic of the relationship. I could see people were struggling a little with how to apply it, so I put Dani on the spot and asked her to join me in a demo. She did beautifully, as I knew she would, and the demo made the material gel for a lot of people. It was a great final class, and one that panavatar and I will definitely do again.<br />
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Sunday evening we had a group dinner at a Chinese restaurant, where I shared a table with Dani, Lizzidoll, and several new friends. We got to hear a repeat of the hypnotic musical induction composed and performed Friday night for DJ Pynchon, which was awesome, and generally enjoy the company of the con-goers. After dinner we went back to the con hotel for some unofficial play time. I had a particularly enjoyable scene with someone from the local area and was in the hallway to enjoy GirlFriday's live rendition of her original song, "You're a Terrible Slut." <br />
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I went to bed ridiculously late and got up ridiculously early (for a 6am flight); the Sunday night low-key play was still going on at 4am when Dani and I were leaving the hotel, which gave us a chance to say goodbye to some people before hitting the road ourselves. We even got a micro-dose of WEEHU closure at the airport, when we ran into KalypsoScreams in the terminal. Then it was back to the mundane world, for now.<br />
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This was a great WEEHU for me. I got to teach some new material, to team up with people I admire and enjoy being with, and to do some one-on-one work and play with exciting and fun people. If you haven't been to an *EHU yet, you're missing out on a lot. Just sayin'.<br />
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<br />Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05223401023663132907noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6722858647058161474.post-73397377681782765372015-09-06T17:22:00.000-04:002015-09-06T17:22:22.379-04:00Coming This FallThere's a lot going on in the next few months. Here are some highlights:<br />
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Happening September 19th in Minneapolis, MN and organized by The FOCUS Group, the Minneapolis/St. Paul erotic hypnosis group (<a href="https://fetlife.com/groups/19821" target="_blank">FetLife link</a>).</div>
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For this event I'll be doing an extended version of my "Kinky Human Tricks" presentation, which is focused on all the fun, sexy, cool things you can do with someone after you get them into trance. I'll also be autographing books for anyone who asks and taking part in the dinner and play party after the presentation. It's going to be a lot of fun.</div>
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WEEHU 2015</h2>
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WEEHU is coming to Belmont, CA this coming Columbus Day weekend (October 9-11). It's a new venue, with everything happening in one place, and that's exciting! My lovely bride Dani and I will be co-presenting on dual inductions, and I'm also hatching plans to co-teach a class on resistance play with Dr. Headcrash, which is something I'm really jazzed about doing.</div>
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You can still get tickets for WEEHU from <a href="http://weehu3.bpt.me/" target="_blank">their registration site</a>, but hotel space is very short. You might want to do it quickly.</div>
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Charmed! 2016</h2>
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Registration is now open for <a href="http://charmedhypno.org/" target="_blank">Charmed!</a>, a new erotic hypnosis event happening in Baltimore this coming January 15-17. The event is sponsored by Black Rose and the DC area Black Rose Hypnosis SIG, who invited me to join the organizing team. </div>
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Charmed! will feature classes, play time, and plenty of opportunities to practice what you learn. I'm looking now for people who'd like to present for us, so contact me on Fetlife or through the Charmed! website <a href="http://charmedhypno.org/presenters/" target="_blank">Presenters page</a>.</div>
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Registration for Charmed! closes December 31, so <a href="http://www.eventbrite.com/e/charmed-baltimore-erotic-hypnosis-event-tickets-18174653879" target="_blank">register</a> and book your hotel rooms now.</div>
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<br />Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05223401023663132907noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6722858647058161474.post-12021117611153268162015-08-10T19:31:00.001-04:002015-08-10T19:31:38.493-04:00Weekend Recap and Looking ForwardIt was a very busy weekend for me in my Bruce Wayne identity, but the highlight of my weekend had to be "More Than Meets the Eye," the class I gave for NELA and NEHG-Boston on Saturday evening.<br />
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The class was about hypnotic transformations -- taking a willing hypnotee and temporarily turning them into someone or something else. There are some classic transformation types such as bimbo/dumb jock, robot, doll, animals and such that are very popular, so I went into a fair level of detail on the sorts of things one needs to consider when turning a partner into these things and what types of suggestions work well. Then, it was demo time. I was expecting to do some basic animal, robot, and maybe bimbo transformations. My audience surprised me in delightful, happy ways.<br />
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My first volunteer asked to become an action figure; in the process of designing the character for this action figure -- a super-villainess named Dramatic Pause, thanks to some creative suggestions from my audience -- I forgot to make her a doll and instead she actually became Dramatic Pause, with a distinctive speech pattern and commanding demeanor. We played out a scene in which she was interviewing a candidate (me) for a lead henchman position, only to throw me over in favor of VulpineSpike, who put on a very impressive dance performance on her command. (I should note for the record that VulpineSpike was NOT hypnotized as part of this. He actually is an impressive dancer.)<br />
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Next, we had fun turning another volunteer into a mannequin, posing her a few ways, and slinging an extra jacket over her shoulders for effect.<br />
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The last demo -- and it's a good thing it was last, because I don't know how we could have followed it -- my volunteer was a little unsure of what she wanted to play. We were sort of thinking cat, sort of thinking bimbo, but she wanted to be tough and smart and slutty rather than dumb. Thanks to some input from our audience she became Knight, a hard-drinking, hard-talking, slutty fighter pilot determined to get a promotion by coming on to her squad commander (me) and then leaving him high and dry once he caved in. Knight played her role beautifully, bragging about her combat prowess and high scores on the strategy exams, the moving on to her sexual conquests of Klingon women. When the squad commander questioned her talents compared to the Klingon women's, Knight pulled down her top and put two of her outstanding "talents" on display, thus winning the promotion. <br />
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(Side note: <i><a href="https://fetlife.com/fetishes/927449" target="_blank">Knight's "talents"</a></i> is now a fetish on FetLife.)<br />
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We had an awesome time all around. NELA and NEHG did a great job of putting this on and taking care of the logistics.<br />
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Schedule Changes</h2>
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The event at the Society that had been tentatively planned for Labor Day weekend has been postponed until next year some time, so that will not be happening yet. However, I am now booked to do an appearance at the FOCUS Group in Minneapolis, MN on Saturday, September 19th. By request of the group I'll be doing an extended version of Kinky Human Tricks. There is <a href="https://fetlife.com/groups/19821/group_posts/7597723" target="_blank">a teaser post</a> on FetLife which will be followed by details.</div>
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And of course I'll also be at <a href="http://weehu.org/" target="_blank">WEEHU 2015</a> in October!</div>
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<br />Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05223401023663132907noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6722858647058161474.post-32764473227201410142015-07-18T18:18:00.000-04:002015-07-18T18:18:53.327-04:00More Than Meets the Eye this AugustOn Saturday, August 8th, I'm doing a special appearance sponsored by the New England Leather Alliance and the New England Hypnosis Group, a NELA SIG. I love to do things with NELA and the New England group, so I'm really looking forward to this one.<br />
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The name of the class is <b>More Than Meets the Eye; </b>it's a class on the basics of how to do safe, fun hypnotic transformations -- using hypnosis to turn your willing partner into someone or something else. I'll be covering a variety of things to consider when doing transformations, including defining the behaviors, features and limits of the new form; keeping control of the environment while playing; and transforming your partner back into their original form when the scene is done. Of course there will be demonstrations, in which members of the audience will have a chance to volunteer to be transformed into a robot, bimbo/dumb jock, vampire, animal, or whatever their imagination conjures up and play a negotiated scene. There will be time at the end for open discussion, and I'll have copies of my books <i style="font-weight: bold;">Mind Play</i> and <i style="font-weight: bold;">The Mind Play Study Guide</i> on hand for anyone who would like a signed copy.<br />
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Since this is a somewhat advanced topic, we'll start with a Hypnosis 101 presentation by PhotoJoseph, the leader of NEHG. There will be food and plenty of opportunity to meet, greet, and take questions.<br />
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Tickets are on sale at the NELA website (https://nelaonline.org/tickets/index.php?main_page=product_info&cPath=8&products_id=23). Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05223401023663132907noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6722858647058161474.post-6734507854666241312015-06-19T18:39:00.001-04:002015-06-19T18:39:08.214-04:00Upcoming AppearancesThe new book is out the door, and now so am I. The next few weeks are going to be very busy, in fun ways.<br />
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First up comes <a href="http://darkodyssey.com/fusion-2015/" target="_blank">Dark Odyssey: Fusion</a>. I've been invited to teach 4 classes in erotic hypnosis at Fusion this year, so I'll be there for most of the 4-day weekend. My new friends at <a href="http://passionalboutique.mybigcommerce.com/" target="_blank">Passional Boutique</a> will have copies of <i>The Mind Play Study Guide</i> for sale at their vendor tent.<br />
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Next comes <a href="http://www.tesfest.org/tesfest/" target="_blank">TESfest</a> over the July 4th weekend. I won't be able to be there, but there will be a lot of awesome erotic hypnosis going on courtesy of ZanyMo, MrDream, and others they've recruited. There will also be copies of <i>Mind Play</i> and <i>The Mind Play Study Guide</i> on sale there thanks to TES being so wonderful.<br />
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Then, July 9-11, it's off to Chicago for <a href="http://www.meehu.org/" target="_blank">MEEHU 2</a>. I'm teaching a bunch of classes there, some for the first time, and of course I'll be signing books for people on request. <br />
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I'm really excited about all of this and looking forward to seeing as many of you as I can out there.<br />
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<br />Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05223401023663132907noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6722858647058161474.post-9596262660875615192015-06-10T18:11:00.002-04:002015-06-10T19:52:52.606-04:00Study Guide Release Date<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<i>The Mind Play Study Guide</i> is just days away from release. The Kindle edition is available now for pre-order and will ship out on Monday, June 15th. The print edition is already available for order on Amazon.<br />
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Inside this 400-page textbook are 27 self-contained lessons on the art of erotic hypnosis, ranging from the very basic Erotic Hypnosis 101 to advanced topics like mutual hypnosis and co-topping. Here is a look at the Table of Contents:<br />
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<li>Welcome</li>
<li>Tips for Presenters<br /><br />The Basics</li>
<li>Erotic Hypnosis 101</li>
<li>Safety and Ethics</li>
<li>Starter Inductions</li>
<li>Going Deeper</li>
<li>The Language of Suggestion</li>
<li>Fun with Modalities</li>
<li>Your Hypnotic Self</li>
<li>Being the Hypnotee<br /><br />The Next Level</li>
<li>Testing and Convincers</li>
<li>Confusion Inductions</li>
<li>Setting and Using Triggers</li>
<li>Fractionation</li>
<li>Instant Inductions</li>
<li>Hypnotic Favorites</li>
<li>Long Distance Hypnosis</li>
<li>More Inductions<br /><br />Kinky Human Tricks</li>
<li>Arousal and Desire</li>
<li>Sensation Play</li>
<li>Hypno-BDSM</li>
<li>Doll Play</li>
<li>Memory Play</li>
<li>Transformations</li>
<li>Hypnotic Orgasms<br /><br />Advanced Lessons</li>
<li>Dual Inductions and Co-Topping</li>
<li>Consensual Non-Consent</li>
<li>The Esdaile State</li>
<li>Where to Go From Here<br /><br />Appendix</li>
<li>Notes on the Discussion Points</li>
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<br />Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05223401023663132907noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6722858647058161474.post-24981899480804280102015-05-25T19:42:00.000-04:002015-05-25T19:42:05.054-04:00The Mind Play Study GuideI'm almost finished with my next big project: <b><i>The Mind Play Study Guide</i></b>.<br />
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This 400-page book expands on the material in <i>Mind Play</i>, adding new techniques, new topics, and new approaches that I've picked up in the two years since the first book came out. Much of the new material is geared toward intermediate and advanced hypnotists and hypnotees.<br />
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Each chapter in the Study Guide is a self-contained lesson on one aspect of erotic hypnosis including presenter notes, discussion questions, and exercises to practice the skills in the chapter. If you are looking for a textbook to learn erotic hypnosis, this format will serve you well because you can take the book at your own pace and know that each new chapter stands apart from the others. <br />
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If you are part of a local erotic hypnosis community group, the Study Guide is designed to make your life easier by providing presentation content. If you need a topic for an upcoming meeting, or your planned presenter has to cancel on short notice, you can pick a lesson from the Study Guide and have a one-hour Wiseguy class by proxy. There's even a lesson on teaching skills, based on my "The Art of Teaching Hypnosis" class. <br />
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The Study Guide format also lends itself to use by a study group, of course. Group members can review the chapter, then meet to compare thoughts, talk over the discussion questions, and do the exercises to practice those new skills right away. <br />
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<i>The Mind Play Study Guide</i> will be available in paperback and Kindle editions. Kindle Unlimited subscribers will be able to read the book as part of their KU subscription and it will be listed in the Kindle Online Lending Library. Barring unexpected complications, it should go on sale in June.Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05223401023663132907noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6722858647058161474.post-59270002868423862452015-03-29T14:55:00.003-04:002015-03-30T20:24:21.601-04:00NEEHU 6 RecapNEEHU 6 took place a couple of weeks ago at The Society in Hartford.<br />
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What can I say about NEEHU that hasn't already been said? Probably not much. Each NEEHU is an experience to cherish. For me it's all about reconnecting with my community friends, making new community friends, teaching, playing, and doing my Hypno Obi-wan thing.<br />
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This year I also had another goal: to help inspire and recruit more new people to present. Toward that end, I solicited people to co-present two of my beginner-level classes and reached out to a few people afterward about joining the presenter ranks in the future.<br />
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Thursday</h3>
Dani, our friend MissIsis, and I journeyed up the highway by day and made reasonable time getting to the Hyatt House. Familiar faces were already congregating in the lobby, along with one face I knew from online but hadn't actually met yet: Lex, of Entrancement UK. I took advantage of the opportunity to introduce myself and chat him up a bit; Lex is a great guy, and we hit it off right away.<br />
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There was no organized plan for Thursday night, so Dani and I went out to eat and pick up a few things for the weekend and called it an early night.<br />
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Friday</h3>
NEEHU started for real Friday morning. We had breakfast in the common room at the Hyatt House among friends, with lots of hugs and hellos, and made our way to The Society. One of the benefits of the expanded schedule (classes all day Friday through Sunday) was that I had more uncommitted time slots to play with, and one of those happened to be the first one of the day. So I took my time getting badged and got a chance to get better acquainted with D'Artagnan, part of the New York contingent. <br />
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My first class was "The Art of Teaching Hypnosis" at 11am, part of the campaign to recruit and inspire new presenters. We had a good turnout and the class went well. After class I spent some time with friends Autumn (HypnoTy) and Fraulein among others, which was fun.<br />
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Next up, after lunch, came "Kinky Human Tricks." I love doing this class, but for NEEHU 6 we changed up the format a bit and added two co-presenters: my old friend AmHypnotic and Lex. We switched up the format a bit: instead of doing a wider variety of tricks, we picked a topic and then each demonstrated something to be done with that topic. We covered less ground laterally, but more depth.<br />
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Given the environment, I felt a desire to experiment so I asked Daja to join me for a doll scene that I'd been wanting to do since the Fetish Fair Flea. She was game, so I dropped her into trance and turned Daja into my ventriloquist's dummy. My idea was to get Daja, who is well known for her talents as a brat, wisecracking and making fun of me. It didn't actually turn out very well; I hadn't really considered that Daja, while she is always up for a little playful fun, really doesn't do rude, and asking her to make fun of someone she knows and is friendly with was asking too much. Still, it was a very interesting game to play; I just need to work on my technique and choose a better way to get the response that I want.<br />
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Other than that learning opportunity, the class went very well. Lex and AmHypnotic have very different styles from mine, so the variety of approaches was highly entertaining. They also have delightfully wicked, playful senses of humor (something I can appreciate) that came out during the various demos. As we were running low on time, I spied Unidragon at the back of the room and invited her to come up for a demo of my famous Five-Point Palm Exploding Orgasm Technique. We did the technique and then, because I know she loves to play with this sort of thing, I deliberately suggested that her own subconscious would decide exactly when that trigger would wear off. She had no conscious idea of what her subconscious had decided, so of course we had to test it periodically throughout the weekend. (So far we know that it lasted at least through the end of NEEHU.)<br />
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Next, I was scheduled for a mentored trance practice. At first I was the only hypnotist there, but I was soon joined by WhisperOfPleasure so we were able to work with several people right up to the start of the Meet 'n' Greet. By then Dani had joined me (she was unable to attend during the day because of another commitment) so we had fun with friends, watched Daja eat strawberries (an inside joke), and socialized until dinner.<br />
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After dinner was the Friday night party, which this year was themed A Taste of Hypnokink. Dani and I were on duty in the back room doing dual inductions, as were our friends DJ Pynchon and WildNutmeg. Dani and I gave several people tastes of the dual induction technique, and then had some time to play around a little ourselves. I borrowed WildNutmeg to give Dani a dual induction and erotic trance, then we returned the favor by doing the same for WildNutmeg. Another friend came by with his partner to have me do a dual induction with him for her, and we made sure that she enjoyed it fully. Later on, LeadPrism and I performed a dual induction and suggestion session with SashasTrance which brought joy to my auditory heart. ;^)<br />
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We stayed busy enough that we missed all of the other scenes and group trances that were done during the party, but I wouldn't have missed any of the scenes we did for anything. <br />
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Saturday</h3>
Saturday started slowly for me; we barely made it to the Society in time for the 10am classes. Fraulein was ready for "Erotic Hypnosis 101." I'd chosen Fraulein a random from a number of volunteers, and as luck would have it she was an excellent choice. She brought the perspective of an empowered, experienced bottom into the class and added a lot; the biggest problem we had was keeping to time (we had to rush the demo).<br />
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Right after that, my friend and graduated student CalamityBrain joined me to present "Your Hypnotic Self," a class for beginning hypnotists on developing their own voice and style. Calamity is a professional voice actress, so she was able to provide a lot of good advice on vocal training and care, and again we found ourselves running short on time before material. Which is always better than the alternative.<br />
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The third Saturday slot was free for me, so I took advantage of the chance to see Mr. Dream and D'Artagnan do their talk on "Making Mistakes Work for You." They had great chemistry and a good crowd, and the class went extremely well.<br />
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After lunch it was time for "Subtle Suggestion," the class on using NLP with erotic hypnosis. I've now given this MEEHU, WEEHU, and NEEHU plus a separate night at The Society in October and it's still popular. Unidragon was on hand, so I picked on her to be my demo volunteer (unsurprisingly, all I had to do was ask). In the process she acquired another trigger, one that causes an intense burst of arousal, and for the fun of it I again gave her subconscious mind control over how long that trigger would continue to work for me. (Again, at least through Sunday.)<br />
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Thanks to the expanded schedule, I had three hours before I had to teach again. I'd planned on observing some other classes, but as often happens at NEEHU plans change. I ended up working with some people individually, doing some coaching and mentoring, and only actually made it to Daja and SpiralTurquoise's class on "Hypnotizing a Brat." That was a highly entertaining presentation with a lot of good material in it.<br />
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My last class of the day was "What's Depth Got to Do With It?" This was a new class for NEEHU, taking the concept of depth and reframing it a bit. I've done classes before on why depth is overrated, and on how to get someone really, really deep; this one was about how to determine whether someone is responsive enough and able to do a given type of suggestion by using 'trial balloon' suggestions as simple tools. My demo volunteer was Amitus, who dropped so deeply right off the bat that it made the demo look easy. Not that there's anything wrong with that!<br />
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After dinner came the play party. The Saturday party is open to all Society members, so it tends to be loud, crowded, and mostly focused on non-hypnotic BDSM play. Dani and I put in an appearance, spent some quality geek time with HypnoMaestro and SpiralTurquoise, but found very little hypnosis going on and called it a night.<br />
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Sunday</h3>
Lots of people were a little slow getting started Sunday, as is often the case. Quite a few people turned up at 10am for mentored trance practice, though; luckily for me a few hypnotists did as well, so we were able to work with pretty much everyone who came. There were some really satisfying breakthroughs for people, which always makes me very happy.<br />
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My 11am period was free and I had intended to go to a discussion panel, but I ended up instead doing an impromptu demonstration of the Esdaile state with Daja in the unconference space. It was definitely time well spent. By the time I had Daja awake enough to be functional (which is about as good as you can get on Sunday of NEEHU) it was time for the Writer's Roundtable. Chewtoy and DreamsOfControl were unable to be there, so SpiralTurqoise and I led the discussion together. We spent most of the time discussing fiction writing techniques and tips, and the group seemed to get a lot out of it. <br />
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The last class period of the day I had the "Induction Swap Meet," which is designed to be a see-one/do-one exchange of people's favorite inductions. We had a good turnout for this one, and there were several interesting techniques brought out for the group. I especially liked D'Artagnan's, which involved an imaginary, moving fixation object. I think we also found a new Fet name for one of the attendees, who invented on the spot an induction he called "Mind Finger." (Cue the James Bond music ... now!) At the end I got to demonstrate a non-verbal induction with SuzanneSxySadist, someone I always want to see more of at these things. <br />
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Usually my NEEHU ends with the last class on Sunday, but this year Dani had to fly home early (and we are both grateful to DaSade for getting her to the airport while I was teaching) and I did not want to sit around by myself, so I joined the mass invasion of the Chinese restaurant near the Hyatt House. The staff was overwhelmed as usual, but it was nice to hang out with PhotoJoseph, BostonBond, MissIsis, and others. <br />
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I couldn't participate in the traditional Sunday night hot tub hang-out, so I went directly to the volunteer suite where I met up with Lex, Lizzidoll, and several others to start the post-NEEHU party there. There were hijinks aplenty in that suite as more and more people arrived, and once there were a number of willing volunteers around I played a game I'd been hatching in my head since clean-up time.<br />
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First, I took Lizzidoll down into a nice, deep trance state and stood her up. Then I walked her around to several other people and just had her stare into their eyes while in trance. One by one, my volunteers locked eyes with Lizzidoll and faded into trance. (There's an actual scientific reason for this, by the way -- mirror neurons, the bits in the brain that allow us to imitate behavior to learn. They fire off all the time when we observe things, so when we stare down someone who is already in trance part of our brain automatically starts to follow them in.) It was ridiculously hot and fun to watch. Then, for the fun of it, I woke Lizzidoll and showed her the results of her handiwork: five deeply hypnotized people just standing around, still and quiet. And then, since she had done the hypnotizing, I had Lizzidoll walk around and bring everyone back out.<br />
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Listening to Lizzidoll's voice as she brought the others out of trance inspired a slightly selfish impulse on my part. I dropped Lizzidoll again, then suggested that she lock eyes with me, and when my eyes closed she would emerge from trance and take over. I was actually surprised at how deeply I dropped, even knowing how the technique works, and I quite enjoyed having Lizzidoll's deliciously sexy voice (and British accent) in my ear as she let me drift for a minute or so before bringing me back up. The joy in her face, and in her voice as she told Lex how she had dropped Wiseguy, made this little game the highlight of my NEEHU. <br />
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There were many more hijinks to be had, and I stayed up way too late, which made for a very happy Wiseguy. <br />
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Monday</h3>
I set the alarm early for Monday so I would have time to gather my things and get on the road. Lex had mentioned that he and Lizzidoll would be leaving around 8, so I made sure to be down in time to say goodbye. There were many hugs, and a little more hypnotic horseplay (not literally), and every time I started to go back upstairs more people came down to say goodbye to. <br />
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Finally I did make it back upstairs long enough to throw my stuff into the suitcase and load it into the car. MissIsis and I were joined by SashasTrance, who needed to be in Baltimore for a few days, so the trip home was fun and full of great talk and companionship. <br />
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Let's see, MEEHU is what? 4 months away? Hurry up!!<br />
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<br />Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05223401023663132907noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6722858647058161474.post-11284873860503186292015-03-29T12:46:00.001-04:002015-03-29T12:46:55.472-04:00Rules are rules ... except when they're wrongI actually posted this to FetLife in August 2014, in response to a lot of (sometimes heated) dialog concerning the list of "rules" in <i>Mind Play</i>. After some prodding from one of the discussion participants as to why there was no errata in the book yet, I realized I really should have put this on this blog as well.<br />
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Also, there will be a corrected edition of <i>Mind Play</i> eventually. The way I originally formatted the manuscript is making unnecessarily time-consuming to fix all of the print and ebook editions. We will get there, though.<br />
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-wg<br />
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Rules are rules ... except when they're wrong</h3>
As I write this, my book Mind Play: A Guide to Erotic Hypnosis is 13 months old. The reception has been everything I could have wished for and more, and I can't tell you how grateful I am to the community for embracing the work.<br />
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One of the perils of being your own editor is that you become blind to some of the little mistakes in your own text. Over the year I've become aware of a couple of typos, a missing word, and a problem with formatting for night mode in the Kindle edition. All of this is pretty minor and can wait for a revised edition to be fixed.<br />
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There's one thing, though, that really can't wait and shouldn't have waited this long. On pages 47-49 (print and PDF editions) is a list of rules entitled <b>Wiseguy's Guide to Ethical Hypnotic Play</b>. The first item in the rules list for hypnotees is:<br />
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<i>You have an obligation to disclose your true biological age and sex to the hypnotist before there is any agreement to play.</i><br />
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This one sentence has caused a lot of grief, outrage, and some harm -- or at least an excuse for others to do harm -- to members of the transgender, genderqueer and genderfluid communities. There are those who see it as a license to persecute people, which by extension means I must be sanctioning that kind of behavior. Some people that I greatly respect and admire were among those hurt by the wording, in ways that I never anticipated or expected anyone would be.<br />
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For a year I've been quiet about this publicly because if I learned anything from reading Amazon.com reviews it's that there's no way an author can respond to a negative comment without making things worse. Some have concluded that I must be anti-trans/queer/fluid myself, which anyone who knows me well can refute but that shouldn't be their job. The arguments get emotional very quickly, and it's easy to get mired in perceived accusations and insults to the point where the real issue gets obscured: that the rule as written is harsh and wrong and potentially harmful.<br />
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There are non-bigoted reasons for the rule, which I won't go into because it would sound too much like justification. If I had it to do over again, I would rewrite the rule to say something like this:<br />
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<i>Before engaging in sexually explicit play, you have a responsibility to ensure that everyone involved meets the legal age of consent in all of the localities and to discuss what sexually explicit terms are most appropriate for each person.</i><br />
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Despite the poor wording in the original, the spirit of the rule has always been <i>be honest</i>. Erotic hypnosis is about trust and communication, so all parties in the scene should be willing to trust and to communicate honestly. If they're not, engaging in hypno play is probably unwise altogether.<br />
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I don't know when there will be a revised edition of <i>Mind Play</i> -- I don't want to be like a certain RPG publisher who seems to put out a new edition every time sales for the current one slow down -- but when I do you can expect to see that new wording, or something similar to it that's been vetted by friends in the community, in place of the old. If you're one of those who read the original wording and was outraged, offended, saddened, or harmed, all I can say is that I'm sorry and that was never my intent.<br />
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Thanks for reading.<br />
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-wg<br />
<br />Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05223401023663132907noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6722858647058161474.post-18197316334526966012015-03-10T16:31:00.002-04:002015-03-10T16:31:22.010-04:00NEEHU 6 preview<a href="http://www.neehu.org/?page_id=148" target="_blank">NEEHU 6</a> is almost here, and it's going to be awesome.<br />
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This year's NEEHU features an expanded schedule, with classes all day on Friday as well as the usual Saturday and Sunday. With more class slots to fill, the organizers have been exerting themselves to get new topics on the schedule and new presenters into the fold.<br />
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My contribution to that new-blood effort was to take on some co-presenters. <br />
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<li><b>Fraulein Fuksalot</b> will be joining me for Erotic Hypnosis 101 (Saturday 10am). She will bring an experienced bottom's perspective to the class.</li>
<li><b>Calamity Brain</b> will be my co-presenter for Your Hypnotic Self (Saturday 11am). She is a self-taught hypnotist who became professionally certified last year as part of my inaugural NGH training class and brings a lot to the table. </li>
<li>For Kinky Human Tricks (Friday 2pm), I'll be sharing the stage with <b>AmHypnotic</b> (aka "Connecticut Pete"), <b>Lex</b> of <a href="http://www.shindiggery.net/wordpress/wordpress/" target="_blank">Entrancement UK</a>, and probably a number of demo volunteers.</li>
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Aside from these, I'll be doing a few classes by myself still:</div>
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<li>The Art of Teaching Hypnosis, Friday at 11am</li>
<li>Subtle Suggestion, Saturday at 2pm</li>
<li>What's Depth Got To Do With It?, Saturday at 6pm</li>
<li>Induction Swap Meet, Sunday at 3pm</li>
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I'll also be doing Mentored Trance Practice sessions on Friday at 4pm and Sunday at 10am and participating in the Writer's Roundtable on Sunday at noon. </div>
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This is actually a pretty light schedule for me, which means I'll have more time than I usually do to take in other peoples' classes, socialize, and be available for people who want individual coaching or play time. I'm looking forward to that.<br /><div>
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See you in Hartford!</div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05223401023663132907noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6722858647058161474.post-59146537321956449222015-02-12T18:15:00.001-05:002015-02-12T18:15:33.660-05:00Erotic Hypnosis at the Fetish Fair FleaBesides Valentine's Day, this weekend is also the date for NELA's <a href="https://nelaonline.org/fetish-fair-fleamarket/winter-fleamarket" target="_blank">Fetish Fair Fleamarket</a> in Warwick, RI. In addition to the usual dizzying array of vendors and community groups in attendance, this year's Flea will also have an Erotic Hypnosis track among the classes.<br />
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Here's the lineup:<br />
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<li><b><a href="http://nelaprog.com/main/webpages/PubsSched.php?format=desc&conid=44#Bodywork Techniques for BDSM: Rough Play With ZanyM! It's good for you!" target="_blank">Bodywork Techniques for BDSM</a></b> with ZanyM<br />Friday 9:45pm, Greenwich room<br /></li>
<li><b><a href="http://nelaprog.com/main/webpages/PubsSched.php?format=desc&conid=44#Erotic Hypnosis 101" target="_blank">Erotic Hypnosis 101</a></b> with Wiseguy<br />Saturday 10:45am, Greenwich<br /></li>
<li><b><a href="http://nelaprog.com/main/webpages/PubsSched.php?format=desc&conid=44#Introduction to Hypnotic Bondage: Restraint without toys" target="_blank">Intro to Hypnotic Bondage</a></b> with MrDream<br />Saturday 2:45pm, Greenwich<br /></li>
<li><a href="http://nelaprog.com/main/webpages/PubsSched.php?format=desc&conid=44#Hypnokink Mentored Workshop: Time to Get IT DONE!" target="_blank"><b>Hypnokink Mentored Workshop</b> </a><br />led by MrDream, with ZanyM and Wiseguy assisting<br />Saturday 6:15pm, Wickford<br /></li>
<li><a href="http://nelaprog.com/main/webpages/PubsSched.php?format=desc&conid=44#Your Hypnotic Self: Becoming a more effective erotic hypnotist" target="_blank"><b>Your Hypnotic Self</b> </a>with Wiseguy<br />Saturday, 9:45pm (Rotunda)<br /></li>
<li><b><a href="http://nelaprog.com/main/webpages/PubsSched.php?format=desc&conid=44#HypnoDolly Genderfuck Playtime!" target="_blank">HypnoDolly Genderfuck Playtime!</a></b> with ZanyM<br />Sunday 11:45am (Greenwich)</li>
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The weather forecast for this weekend in New England is nasty, but I hope you'll come join us.</div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05223401023663132907noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6722858647058161474.post-84773113806063932012015-01-26T17:58:00.004-05:002015-01-26T17:59:16.599-05:00Professional Hypnotherapy Training, 2015That's right ... he's doing it again! The professional certification course I gave in the fall went so well that I've decided to offer it again this spring. <br />
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The course is a 100-hour distance learning course in professional hypnotherapy. At the end of the course those who complete the final (a practical exam/exercise, not a written test) will become professionally certified through the National Guild of Hypnotists. NGH certification is the most widely recognized professional hypnosis credentials in the field.<br />
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Whether you've been hypnotizing people for years or aren't sure which end of the pocket watch to hold, this course will teach you how to be a successful professional hypnotist. Topics covered in the course include:<br />
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<li>Setting the stage for success with a good pretalk</li>
<li>Twenty different hypnotic inductions, each of which gets dissected and explained</li>
<li>How to know if you've got enough depth for what you intend to do</li>
<li>Basics of Neurolinguistic Programming (NLP) and how to incorporate NLP into your hypnosis work</li>
<li>Proven strategies for dealing with the most common client issues, including</li>
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<li>Smoking cessation</li>
<li>Weight loss</li>
<li>Stress management</li>
<li>Helping with fears, phobias, and anxieties</li>
<li>Hypnotic pain management</li>
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<li>Tips and tricks for giving live presentations and demos</li>
<li>How to start and build a successful hypnotherapy practice</li>
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This is serious professional-grade training, but -- largely because I don't have to rent a physical classroom -- the tuition is only $1295, which includes your first year of NGH membership dues. <a href="mailto:wiseguy35@gmail.com">Email me</a> to get on the student mailing list and find out more about it.</div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05223401023663132907noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6722858647058161474.post-47937234877117471382015-01-18T18:54:00.001-05:002015-01-18T18:54:26.668-05:00TES Workshop RecapI really should've posted about this before it happened. My lame and vague excuse is mundane-life commitments and a Wiseguy project that's taking longer than I expected. (More on that when it's further along.)<br />
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Yesterday <a href="http://hypno-sleepingirl.blogspot.com/?zx=52db3f68edf7af9a" target="_blank">sleepingirl</a> and I put on our tag-team workshop for <a href="http://www.tes.org/" target="_blank">The Eulenspiegel Society</a> in New York. Fundamentally, it was the same plan we originally had for our October appearance in Amherst MA: Erotic Hypnosis 101, followed by separate breakout sessions for tops and bottoms, followed by mentored practice time. TES scheduled four hours for us.<br />
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TES does an amazing job at promoting and coordinating these events. We had a full room (I didn't count heads, but it looked like between 50 and 75 to me), and the people were in a great frame of mind for learning and play. We owe a huge thanks to ZanyM and Mephki for putting it together, to MrDream for his opening remarks and support, and to TES in general for being awesome. ZanyM in particular found us a second room so that sleepingirl and I wouldn't be talking over each other during the breakout part of the workshop.<br />
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The feedback from attendees has been overwhelmingly positive. Sleepingirl was her usual awesome self. I actually spent the practice hour working with a group of bottoms who had no tops, but fortunately several friends were on hand to help coach people during that hour. <br />
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After the event there was a small party at Mephki's apartment, where I got to make some new friends and discover kinky uses for a variety of seemingly innocent objects. I would have loved to stay in New York longer, but I had obligations at home today and tomorrow. <br />
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Next time. <br />
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-wg<br />
<br />Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05223401023663132907noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6722858647058161474.post-50833181144295555122014-11-25T19:37:00.002-05:002014-11-25T19:40:33.337-05:00Class of 2014This past weekend (November 22-23) marked the conclusion of my first professional certification class. As of now, there are twelve newly-certified professional hypnotherapists ready to start offering their services. I didn't ask permission to name them, so I won't, but if any of them want to announce themselves, either in comments here or somewhere else, I'll help spotlight them.<br />
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I have to say, the class was a lot of work. Each of the 25 instructional units had to be designed and planned from scratch, and I've been making notes since the first day on how to do it better next time. The group was incredibly patient as we worked through our technical glitches and always ready to offer suggestions and to bring new things to the table for everyone's benefit. That all by itself was a magical thing. <br />
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With all that work done and improvement ideas noted, it would be a shame not to make use of it. So there will definitely be another online professional certification class in the spring. It will probably start in April, after NEEHU 6, and run through June.<br />
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I'm unspeakably proud of everyone in this group. Some of them had a lot of prior hypnosis experience from doing erotic mind play and had to make some adjustments to adapt their style to vanilla hypnotherapy. They all made that adjustment well, and the sometimes-grueling final exams (they had to do a live hypnotherapy session with a volunteer client) proved to me that these are some fine hypnotists in and out of the dungeon. It's an honor to be their teacher.<br />
<br />Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05223401023663132907noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6722858647058161474.post-74346162033573707002014-10-27T11:00:00.000-04:002014-10-27T11:00:23.509-04:00Weekend Wrap-upSo ... as you probably noticed from the last couple of short posts, it was a busy weekend for me and <a href="http://hypno-sleepingirl.blogspot.com/?zx=1271c9db971ffd32" target="_blank">sleepingirl</a>. Now, I have time for a more relaxed description of what went down.<br />
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Our first official stop was at a college in Amherst, MA. (I'd love to plug them, but the contract they had me sign actually forbids me doing so without written permission, which I neglected to get. There are several colleges in Amherst.) We were invited by a student group that promotes education and healthy discussion of sexuality, kink, and related issues. <br />
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We found the venue without too much confusion and met our hosts, then proceeded to set up the space. Our plan was to do a three-part program. First, I would do Erotic Hypnosis 101 for the whole group. Then we would divide the group into tops and bottoms and have sleepingirl take the bottoms to another room for a talk on negotiation (from the bottom side), safety, and being a better hypno-bottom while I worked with the hypnotists on negotiation from the top, safety and ethics, and tips and tricks for developing your hypnotic style and presence. Then we would rejoin the groups for some mentored practice time.<br />
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Things didn't quite work out that way. The space really only had one room of usable size, so we hastily planned out how to manage that. Then the turnout was a lot less than we were expecting because of a schedule conflict (Parents' Weekend), so it turned into a much smaller group than planned. That actually helped, because it made it very easy to tailor our presentations closely to the interests of that group. For example, most of the group were switches, so we abandoned the split-up-into-two idea and simply took turns discussing aspects from both sides of the watch. The group was curious and full of great questions so we did a lot of demonstration and Q&A, and because they were much younger than the usual EEHU audience they didn't have a lot of first-hand experience, so we spent more time on basic techniques like different types of inductions. In the end, while we didn't do a lot of what we originally planned, we did give them what they needed and everyone left happy. I'm looking forward to returning in the spring.<br />
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The next event on our schedule was at <a href="http://www.thesocietyct.org/" target="_blank">The Society</a> in Hartford CT. The Society is the venue for <a href="http://www.neehu.org/" target="_blank">NEEHU</a>, of course, so I'm very familiar with the space. The staff were wonderfully welcoming and a lot of good friends were there -- DaSade, sleepingirl and cckitten, AmHypnotic and MentalConfetti, LeeAllure, CalamityBrain, Decordazon, MrDream and ZanyM, Setsudo, and more. The Master Charles room filled up with people, most of whom I did not know. That meant I would be introducing new people to the erotic hypnosis community, which is always exciting.<br />
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The topic for the night was Subtle Suggestion: Combining NLP and Hypnosis. It's one that I've done a couple of times now but is still very much a work in progress. For the Society, I expanded the NLP material and did some simple exercises with the group before moving into the integration with hypnosis. The crowd was great; they participated, they played, they were lively and interested, and we had a great time. An exhausted sleepingirl was kind enough to be one of my demo bottoms (she knows how much I love playing with her mind), and I was fortunate to meet Mistress Rheea and do some demonstrations with her as well.<br />
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As it happens, one of the people who came to that class was Enlightenment14 (FetLife name). We talked before and after class, and he arranged for me to do a guest spot on <a href="http://valleyfreeradio.org/" target="_blank">Valley Free Radio</a> (WXOJ, 103.3FM) the very next morning. I called in and talked to Rick Haggerty for about 30 minutes about erotic hypnosis, the community, and of course <i>Mind Play</i>. We didn't actually get to the NLP aspects, but from what I've heard so far the community who heard the broadcast was pleased. <br />
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If you didn't hear it, you can download or stream the audio of that show from <a href="https://archive.org/details/103.3FMKickinIt.102614.mp3.edited" target="_blank">their archive site</a>. My spot is during the second hour, from 9:15 to 9:45 (which would be 1:15-1:45 of the recording).<br />
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It was a great weekend. Sleepingirl is a rock star for all the right reasons -- she is frank, very sharp, supremely talented, and really understands the nuances of being kinky, bottoming, and teaching. I loved co-presenting with her, and I hope we can do it more often.<br />
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