Phill Smith – Organic Mentalism (2 DVD)

Day 1: Session 1a

Information gathering

Word / image divination using The Biz – ungaffed ungimmicked live information gathering with just business cards – method and presentational approaches

Interl8ced Thief – a fun reinvention of the ‘Dead or Alive’ structure, without dead people getting in the way. Self working, easy to do ANYTIME

Fastext – a 100% impromptu booktest for the quick witted

Additional concepts taught:

• Psychological vs Psychic vs Unique premises
• Spectator as mind-reader
• Making the reveal

Session 1b: Mind control

Equivoque, PATEO & Quinta – Three powerful methods to force one object from many, creating the illusion of total freedom for the spectator, each illustrated with a powerful hard hitting effect.

Psychological forces – Illustrating the power of psychological forces using Left Brain / Write Brain, a simple demonstration of thought transference that hits EVEN when you miss.

Number forces – Combining ideas to create powerful moments WITHOUT getting bogged down in sums.

Additional concepts taught:

• Making it BIG
• Creating a moment
• Environmental revelations

Day 2: Session 2a

Brain to Brain – foolproof propless

The Universal – control the spectator’s choice of ANYTHING, no matter how abstract, any time, any place, over skype, anywhere.

Progressive anagrams – how to create the illusion of loose, free mindreading

Mathematical effects – creating meaning and demathsing logical effects

Additional concepts taught:

• Fake improv
• Genuine jazz
• Believable moments

Session 2b: All hands on deck

This session will cover a range of techniques, principles and approaches to creating the illusion of REALISTIC mind-reading and mentalism using a standard deck of cards.

Body language mind-reading – systematically break down the spectator’s responses and learn the playing card they are simply thinking of, even handing the final revelation to the audience.

Deep-thought prediction – craft an impossible prediction from next to nothing using just a normal deck, with a revelation that will knock the audience for six.

Time-sight – a vivid presentation for a hidden classic

Power memory – learn to memorise the WHOLE DECK in a flash… or so it seems.

Visionary Journey – create an intriguing reading for your audience, taking them on an imaginary journey to a destination they will never predict… but you will.

Additional concepts taught:

• *Real* card handling
• Freestyling with the audience
• Using a grounded hook

 Session 2c: Real Skills

This session focuses on demonstrations of real skills that a mentalism can perform to create the impression of highly developed mental faculty. The secret is in maintaining a delicate balance between real real and fake real.

Deep memorisation – learn to instantly capture information with speed and accuracy, and how to create a powerful performance around it

Beat the calculator – perform rapid calculations that will blow your audience away as you mentally compute sums faster than they can even open the calculator app

Handwriting analysis – ready to go at a moment’s notice, a foolproof method for knowing which name your audience has written is their best friend’s.

 Rainman – Perform a superfast estimation that will definitely impress. Yup. Definitely.

 Additional concepts taught:

• Informal demonstrations done right
• Why do it real vs why fake it?
• Teaching the real