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Imagine Your Grads... LAUGHING, CHEERING, APPLAUDING & PARTICIPATING
They only have ONE High School Graduation ... Let's do it right and make it AWESOME
You need Stephen Christopher the CLEAN Comedy Hypnotist for Graduation Party in New Jersey
What's the BIG difference between Stephen Christopher's Comedy Hypnosis Show and others?
More than just a Certified Hypnotist... You're getting A COMPLETE STAGE SHOW!
A Full Time "Family Entertainer" with 20 years performing experience
Fully equipped with lights, sound, props and crew
For a Guaranteed Evening of Good, Clean, Safe FUN!
PLUS... 2 Free Bonuses that NO ONE ELSE offers
Stephen
has been in your shoes
Stephen has 2 sons of his own ... 1 of them just graduated High School last year so he understands exactly what High School Grads want for "cool" entertainment...
and he knows what parents expect and demand in a fun, clean, safe and memorable event for their kids.
*REQUEST YOUR FREE REPORT:
"The Ultimate Project Graduation/Grad Ball Planning Guide"
or
*Everything You've Always wanted to Know About Grad Party Planning But Didn't Know Who To Ask"
This is a 40 page printed book that you can share with your committee and it will be an extremely valuable aid in planning your event.
Just send me an email with your mailing address and I will OVERNIGHT to you my DEMO DVD and promo package including "Planning Guide"
Please include Name of School and date of your event.
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WHAT IS PROJECT GRADUATION?
When
Spring rolls around, only one thing is on the minds of high
school
seniors across the country: GRADUATION!
As a rite of
passage,
graduation
night is unequaled in the eyes of youth. It is a
night
to be proud, to celebrate past achievements, and to look forward to the
future.
But some teens mistakenly think that the best way to celebrate on
graduation
night is to drink alcohol. In the past, graduation
parties involving
alcohol
have left some graduating seniors with hangovers, embarrassing
memories,
and in trouble with their parents, friends, and/or the police. Some
others
were not so lucky. There were 15 teenagers killed in alcohol related
crashes
in Maine’s 1997 graduation
season.
Graduation
parties should be fun, not fatal. The idea of all night, chemical
free
graduation
parties is not new. Oregon high schools have sponsored such
parties
for graduating seniors for 50 years.
The
name “Project
Graduation”
was coined twenty years ago by planners in
Maine,
where a total of eighteen people had died during two graduation
seasons
due to alcohol-related crashes. Maine’s first Project
Graduation
was
such a success that high schools throughout the State adopted similar
programs,
and “Project
Graduation”
became a generic name for the
chemical-free
graduation
parties that have started a new tradition -
celebrating
safely.
All
school-related functions are supposed to be chemical-free, but what
makes
Project
Graduation
different is the attitude of the students. They
have
made a conscious decision to enjoy their graduation
night without
alcohol
or drugs. And no other group, including parents and school
personnel,
can make that decision for students.
It
should be noted that the graduation
party suggestions in the Planning Guide can be used to plan chemical-free
activities throughout the year.
While
celebrating safely has been referred to as “Project
Graduation,”
you’ll
find that this approach is equally effective for planning homecomings, proms,
Halloween carnivals, victory dances, and other celebrations.
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New York, New Jersey, Long Island, Pennsylvania, Connecticut, Delaware, Maryland
Project Graduation or Grad Ball. Whatever you call your after Graduation Celebration event you want a smooth running, safe and sober event.
You want fun activities for your Grads and you want them to have an awesome and memorable evening.
Your kids have only ONE High School graduation. You get ONE chance to do it right.
And you want the best, most fun and memorable event possible.
New Jersey Hypnotist Stephen Christopher brings the right balance of a "cool" show that is clean, safe and most of all FUN.
Stephen Christopher New Jersey High School Hypnotist was born in NYC...grew up in Lodi, New Jersey and now lives 5 minutes over the border in the Poconos, Pa.
With an apartment/office in New Jersey he regularly travels everywhere and anywhere in the NY/NJ Tri-State surrounding area.
A full time performer booked regularly at the best family resorts and festivals year after year.
Stephen Christopher brings his Awesome New Jersey Comedy Hypnosis Show to New York, New Jersey, Connecticut, Long Island, Delaware and Maryland.
The most FUN New York Comedy hypnotist and the Most Fun New Jersey Comedy Hypnotist.
Stephen Christopher Project Graduation Hypnotist is available for booking Nationwide.
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"Four
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A Bit of the History of Stage Hypnosis
by Stephen Christopher
Stage hypnosis of some sort has been going
on since the 18th century, and techniques that resemble what we think of as
hypnosis have been going on throughout recorded history. In the stage shows of
the 18th and 19th centuries, the "subject" was "mesmerized" while in a waking
state and was said to be completely at the will of the operator, or hypnotist.
Brochures for such shows assured audiences that the process would take place
"without the aid of trick, collusion, or deception, in the slightest possible
degree." While the name may have changed over the years to reflect the popular
culture, the practice remained largely the same. The term "hypnotism" was not
coined until 1841, and indeed these early displays of "mesmerism" were viewed to
be the work of ordinary suggestion rather than succumbing to a trance. That
didn't stop some early stage hypnotists to claim they were using supernatural
powers to influence their subjects. In the 20th century, even though the term
"hypnotism" was used widely, those performing stage hypnotism explained their
performances as the works of supernatural powers. As late as 1996, Ormond
McGill, the preeminent American hypnotist wrote, "Some have called this powerful
transmission of thought from one person to another 'thought projection.' The
mental energy used appears to be of two types: magnetic energy [...] generated
within the body and telepathic energy generated within the mind." Right or
wrong, however, the terms hypnosis and mesmerism are used pretty much
interchangeably to describe what we think of as stage hypnotism. Most people
have moved beyond the concept of a man with intense eyes swinging a pocket watch
on a chain to put someone into a zombie-like trance, but there's still some
misconception surrounding hypnotism. People who have been asked after a session
of stage hypnosis if they recall the experience have sometimes emphatically
claimed that they do not recall it at all. Others, like the great 20th century
physicist Richard Feynman describes the situation as knowing that the hypnotist
is wrong, but finding it easier to go along with the instructions. Indeed,
hypnotized volunteers are completely free to refuse any suggestions. In fact,
they are not in a semi-conscious state at all, but in a state of hyper
awareness. There is fairly widespread unfounded belief that hypnosis can cause harm by
affecting the hypnotism subject's judgment, but there is no evidence to suggest
that it's true. There are some psychologists and mental health professionals who
are afraid that hypnosis could bring out emotions in the subject that they don't
know how to handle. Again, there isn't evidence to back up this theory. The
effects of stage hypnosis are chalked up to a combination of peer pressure, a
desire to comply, suggestibility, and plain old trickery and stagecraft. Some
theorize that having the excuse to step firmly outside their comfort zone are
enough to convince subjects to go along with the suggestions. And, while it may
be unseemly to mention it, there are a certain number of charlatans in the
history of stage hypnosis who have used paid subjects "planted" in the audience.
Ormond McGill's own New Encyclopedia of Stage Hypnosis discusses a fake hypnosis
act where the hypnotist prompts the subject with off-mic whispers. Successful
stage hypnosis employs the strategies of participant compliance, participant
selection, and audience deception for a successful stage hypnosis session.
Participants feel social pressure to comply from internalizing the feelings of
the expectant audience. The participants selected are quite often those who
appear to be the most extroverted audience members. And the stage hypnotist
uses a certain degree of "sleight of hand" to lead the audience where he wants
them. Perhaps the most successful stage hypnotist ever was Peter Casson of the
UK. Nobody had seen anything like his shows, which played to sold out audiences
in the mid-twentieth century. During his shows he would lead a group of
hypnotized spectators through a number of activities like crying at imaginary
films. Skeptics were invited onstage where they, too would become willing
participants in the act. However, Casson grew alarmed by what he thought of as
rogue hypnotists who would induce people to commit degrading or dangerous acts,
and formed the Federation of Ethical Stage Hypnotists. He devoted himself to
debunking what he believed to be fake hypnotic practices like past life
regression. In fact, in the UK, the 1952 Hypnotism Act was implemented to
protect the public against unscrupulous hypnotists. The act was reviewed in
1994, and a conclusion of a study at that time was presented to parliament. It
said, "there was no evidence of serious risk to participants in stage hypnosis,
and that any risk which does exist is much less significant than that involved
in many other activities."