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A Master Class in Hypnotic Storytelling.

Part 1A Life in Storytelling.

Summary

Robin Manuell and Igor Ledochowski.Edited by Caleb Williams and Margaret Manuell.

These interviews were originally recorded for Igor Ledochowski's “Masters

of Hypnosis” Series. If you wish to share this with someone - Please direct

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Biographies

Igor Ledochowski is a Master Hypnosis and NLP Trainer and the

best selling author of “The Power of Conversational Hypnosis”

and “The Deep Trance Training Manual” In ten years he has

single handedly transformed the teaching of hypnosis on line and

in the process he has trained with and interviewed most of the

greatest minds in the field.

Robin Manuell has been a storyteller since his teenage years.

With a background in theatre and psychology he started practising

NLP and Hypnosis in 1996. His adventures have taken him all

around the world in search of teachers and inspiration for stories

that change minds.




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Contents

1. A Life in Storytelling.

a) Summary

b) Edited Transcript

c) Stacked Realities

2. Two Travellers.

a) Edited Transcript

3. Storytelling in Performance.

a) Summary

b) Edited Transcript

4. First Steps in Storytelling.

a) Edited Transcript.

b) Summary




1. A Life in Storytelling.

Welcome. This hour long interview with Robin Manuell was

first released by Igor Ledochowski for his Street Hypnosis Club.

Robin talks about his background in storytelling and hypnosis

and demonstrates, as he does so, how to use many of the

hypnotic language patterns you'll become familiar with.

To supplement the recording we've provided

• a summary of the learning points from the session.

• an edited transcript of the interview,

• a figure illustrating the stacked realities in the first half of the session

When you enjoy what you learn here, do let us know if you have

any questions. You can leave a comment on this page:

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Summary.

Storytelling is a powerful skill to learn. Robin started as a

storyteller and theatre maker before he became a hypnotist. He

ran a theatre company in his twenties putting on open air

Shakespeare and platforming new work.

He studied Psychology and Computer Models at Sussex

University, specialising in the final year in Psychodrama and

Shamanism.

As a child he was an avid reader and learnt about the world

through the pages of books.

His parents were both performers and encouraged a love of

learning. He was acting and performing from an early age,

making up plays to perform to the family, involved in local and

school productions.

At University he came across three books that influenced his

approach to theatre.




“Impro” by Keith Johnson

Keith Johnson taught creativity to children in a deprived

inner city school and wrote about what he learnt. He was

a writer for the Royal Court and is recognised as one of

the fathers of improvisation games.

“The Way of the Actor” by Brian Bates

Brian Bates brought his knowledge of shamanism to

workshops at R.A.D.A with young actors.

“The Therapeutic Theatre” by Joseph Moreno.

Moreno worked originally with prostitutes in Vienna using

theatre to help them tell their own stories. He devised techniques

and activities that lead directly to psychodrama and indirectly to

group psychotherapy.

Aristotle argued that through the experience of the drama the

audience experienced a catharsis that left them changed. These

authors explored how the performer was changed through the

drama.



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Robin discovered for himself how powerful these practices could

be, and saw people in his workshops growing and changing. He

also realised that without skill, without self-knowledge, a little

knowledge was a dangerous thing.

Stories affect us on an unconscious level; and through being

creative, through being authentic, you get to tell your own story.

Your story, when you live it, begins to include other people. In

the telling of it, it comes to life with the audience. The audience

becomes part of the story and then it begins to have a life of its

own. It becomes part of the mythology and history of the

community you build around you.

The real secret, the essence, of storytelling is that buzz that you

create inside you, around you; and share with your audience.

Think of the power of the stories of Jesus, Mohammed and the

Buddha. It's not just about techniques or tricks. It's about putting

soul into what you do.

Storytelling is an interactive process. The audience is involved

and brought into the life of the story. It's something you create

together in performance.

You can learn so much about someone so quickly through the

stories they tell.




When you understand your own story, it's easier to recognise

other people's stories, to experience this moment with them now,

as just a small arc of their life.

The path of the storyteller requires self-knowledge, but it is the

path of experience. The storyteller studies with many teachers but

she alone chooses her path, her reality.

Robin began a path of personal exploration and training

including studying with Richard Bandler. His study of hypnosis

and NLP gave him greater choices and skill with his theatre

workshops.

It's easier to do hypnosis than not to do hypnosis. Since it's

happening all the time, anyway, you might as well get good at it,

and then work out what good you can do with it.

Robin immersed himself in studying Richard Bandler and other

great storytellers. But he became increasingly concerned with

the potential for abuse, and to have concern for the dangers of

improper application.

He went to study with John Grinder and worked for him for a

while but realised that if he was looking for a moral compass, he

had to find that inside himself.




You can learn your craft in the hands of a great teacher, but you

only master it when you make it your own, when you can make

your own choices and begin to apply them authentically. If

you're not being yourself, the best you can be, you're selling

short, not only yourself but the people around. you

Learning to listen is one of the first skills of being a storyteller.

Learning to imagine new worlds is the second.

Everything begins in thinking: an idea is a thought before it's a

thing. That means ideas can change the world.

Every good hypnotist will challenge themselves on those cases

where what they know doesn't work. Some people repeatedly

fail to change something important to them. There is a deeper

story working itself out through their struggle.

We tell ourselves really powerful stories when we are young and

forget they were just stories. Our hardest clients are not weak.

They are immensely powerful to hold onto those very things that

hold them back.

You have to have a strong respect for those deeper stories and

find a way to bring out the powerful positive stories for yourself

and the people around you.




A Master Class in Hypnotic Storytelling

Listen to the whole series.

The Power of Conversational Hypnosis.

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