The Blurb
Question: Have you ever wondered why some performers almost always seem to have absolute control over their audiences?
What Every Performer Should Know About the Power of Words
If you are looking for the tools and techniques that have helped launch the careers of some of the most successful mentalists and magicians of our time… you’ve come to the right place!
Find out what they know (that you probably don’t) about how to influence people, create long-lasting impact and have greater success in booking gigs.
Using Neuro-linquistic Programming (NLP) in magic and mentalism performances all started with Wonder Words. Even NLP trainers refer to Wonder Words as their favorite training on NLP made practical and easy. Yet Wonder Words goes beyond mere NLP…
Serious performers understand the importance of words in creating powerful performances. In addition, selling yourself becomes much easier if you understand how to use persuasive language in your calls, on your website and in your marketing materials.
You can feel the difference when you’re listening to a professional versus an amateur. The professional commands attention while the amateur can only mumble a few words that have no meaning or impact on the audience. It’s no wonder they’re in constant fear of being heckled. They should be!
Thankfully, Kenton Knepper took the time to wade through all of the NLP source materials, find the gems, test and build on them through thousands of live performances… and then make them available to us in an easy-to-understand, practical format.
Why you should listen to Kenton…
Kenton Knepper began working on influence at a very early age. In elementary school he could be seen dragging around a tome on hypnosis. Later, Kenton became a teacher’s assistant in psychology classes in High School. Kenton grew up working on a hypnosis show with one of his many busy teachers. Kenton also excelled in understanding word power from an early age.
Kenton studied many esoteric and mysterious art forms, always looking for new ways to connect to people at deeper levels, and to help shift the consciousness of those he met towards positive ends. In his magic and mentalism shows he became known for helping people feel happier, healthier, more connected, more awake and aware. Kenton was also keenly aware of illusion and how positive use of illusion could lead people to greater insight and truths.
All of these factors lead Kenton to examine verbal influence, subconscious communication, indirect meaning and influence.
Kenton travelled all over the United States, Canada and Mexico performing magic and mentalism, while secretly honing his linguistic and subtle communication skills. He tested out his ideas with everyone from psychologists, Ericksonian hypnosis practitioners, famous speakers, celebrities and yes, even mentalists. Soon everyone wanted to know what he knew.
Why this is so important…
We’ve all had those shows where you just can’t seem to connect with the audience. At best, they just don’t care. But if you really lose control, they heckle you throughout the entire show.
How many gigs have you lost because you couldn’t get the client to understand why you were the best choice?
What about the question that strikes fear into the hearts of most performers: “Do you do kids’ birthday parties?” That’s not a bad thing if that’s your market. But if your goal is to work for intelligent, adult audiences, it’s the last impression you want your prospective clients to have of you.
How often have you spent good money on some new prop, device or effect… only to find out that it was a complete flop in front of a real audience? Look at some of the most well-respected names in our business. It’s rarely the tricks that make them successful. Instead, it’s the things they say, and how they say them, that turn a mundane trick into something with real impact.
Wonder Words: The Complete Course
For over a decade Kenton would tip some of his secrets under the guise of magic performance and NLP to a handful of performing students. Eventually, he was prodded to teach an exclusive group of some of the world’s most famous mentalists a little about what he knew. It was this teaching to select students and peers which lead in time to Wonder Words.
The original Wonder Words series was available on cassette tapes (yes, they’ve been around that long). Then we went to CDs. Then MP3s for each Volume.
We know from experience that trying to digest all this information at once can be like drinking from a firehose. So we’re releasing them as a course so you have ample time to digest it and try it out. The content is still being delivered via download (MP3s and PDFs), but it’s now broken into 12 indvidual segments. Every other week a new segment will be available for download through your Media Library.
Here are just a few of the things Wonder Words will help you be able to do:
-Perform effects using words as the main or only gimmick.
-Boost anything you already do and turn that into a modern miracle, just by changing a few important, but very sneaky and powerful words.
-Get people to do what you want them to do.
-Influence people to believe and think as you wish.
-Change the memory of what people experience into what you want them to remember.
-Understand people at deep levels, and know how to develop deeper connections and rapport with others.
-Seem to read the thoughts of others, and do readings without stock lines, memorization, or having to guess about a person at all.
-Appear to be instantly credible.
-Learn to relax before, during and after performances.
-Put others into relaxed or altered states of mind without hypnosis.
-Wonder Words can help you communicate and influence the subconscious minds of your audience.
-Get people to feel things, such as tingles or shivers down their spine, without gimmicks or hypnosis.
-Understand the real secret power of suggestion, and how it is hidden in virtually everything, ready for you to use.
-Discover how body movement, props, colors, clothing and much more causes secret influence on your audience.
-Be more authentic, seem more realistic, feel more natural to your audiences.
-Look for and take advantage of secret patterns.
-Impress secret influence upon your friends and audiences in a natural way they cannot notice.
-Stop people from doing things you don’t want them to do.
-Turn rebellious people into unwitting participants.
-Allow for choices with outcomes or perceptions always as you want them to be.
-Instantly make an entire audience feel included as a group, by changing a single word.
How much is it worth to you?
The original price of the casette tapes was $200.
The CD versions originally cost $180.
The MP3s were $150.
And don’t forget that the two workbooks, which we’re including in this package, sold for $35 each.
The Complete Course includes all of this, plus more, for only $117!!!
Bonuses
You also get the following bonuses now with this course:
Wonder Words Workbooks: Wonder Words Workbook 1 is loaded with fill-in-the-blank examples and applications from the first four lessons of Wonder Words. The Wonder Words Workbook 2 has fill-in-the-blank applications from the remaining eight lessons, as well as additional information and insights. The Workbooks used to sell for $35 each. That’s $70 for both of them. Now you get them FREE as bonuses in this Wonder Words Course.
Accidental Discovery is the video explanation of the trick by the same name talked about in the Wonder Words Course. This video demonstration with new insight and insider explanations originally sold for $25. It is another included BONUS in this Wonder Words Course. This is a trick that fooled Kenton, and became one of the most underground miracles pros used in close-up magic they would not tip to others. Now you can learn it all, in detail, with streaming video that makes every action and application of Wonder Words clear.
Extra Special Bonus: ADDITIONAL COMMENTARY BY KENTON AND OTHERS on how the material in the lessons should be used. Over 20 years after the original recordings, Kenton and his peers have new thoughts on applying these principles, clearing up misunderstandings, new insights, applications, how these methods are being used today and how they should be used, and more. Wonder Words launched a majority of ideas and principles used by everyone today. Learn how others have misunderstood and incorrectly applied these ideas, and how Kenton, and others, suggest you use these tools to get the most power out of them now. After you absorb the Course, these interviews will move you to a deeper understanding and take what you know to new heights.
This is the FULL COURSE of Wonder Words so you can study and soak in all the very best, with bonuses and access that is unprecedented.
Jheff's Guide
WHAT IT IS:
Downloadable audio files and PDFs.
HOW ACCURATE OR COMPLETE THE BLURB IS:
The blurb is incredibly accurate and, actually, the above blurb is edited. There is a more complete list of contents on Kenton’s Wonder Wizards site.
JHEFF’S JUDGMENT:
This is, without question, one of the top ten products any mentalist should have and use. Subtleties, as demonstrated by Banachek in his three volume set of books, is essential to the success of a working mentalist’s act and this set is all about verbal subtleties. In other words, and let me be quite unapologetically blunt: If you don’t understand why you need to get and use this, then you have no business being a mentalist.