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This is a great interview where Derren Brown reveals many cold reading tactics.

Derren Brown Interviewed by Richard Dawkins.

Awesome interview with Derren Brown !

Begoateed, whimsical, and able to read you as easily as the top row of letters on an optician’s test board, Derren Brown is one of the cult faces of 21st century Britain. In the wake of successful television series, the mental illusionist (if you see what I mean) is performing at the Cambridge Theatre with his latest show Something Wicked This Way Comes. Tom Bowtell caught up with Derren and accidentally asked if he thought he was Jesus…

Link: Interview with Derren Brown

Link: Derren Brown – Staring competition

One of the most interesting and powerful NLP Neuro Linguistic Programming techniques that I am asked to teach on a regular basis is the Hand Shake Interrupt made famous by Milton Erickson and of course Derren Brown.

The Handshake pattern interrupt is a very powerful way to induce rapid Hypnosis, and I use it regularly in NLP demonstrations to show how easy it is to learn how to hypnotise someone…

As you may or may not know the handshake interrupt is simply interrupting the process of a handshake, which causes a momentary blank in the brain and bringing the subjects hand up to their face, whilst using hypnotic NLP language to bring them into a trance state.

I very occasionally use it on the street, once with a doorman a la Derren Brown but that’s another story. However I believe that as an NLP technique it is not the most covert way to induce a mild trance…

So as part of my ongoing commitment to teaching you NLP Skills that you can use in your everyday life here is an example of Derren and Miltons NLP technique that you can use in the real world.

Link: Derren Brown, NLP & Covert Hypnotic Pattern Interrupts

Link: Derren Brown – Casino

Link: Derren Brown beats 9 chess players simultaneously.

Link: Derren Brown – “Paying with Paper”

Link: Derren Brown – Kung Fu Punch

Atheist, sceptic & mentalist Derren Brown challenges the beliefs of a New Age believer with the use of a Voodoo Doll.

Link: Derren Brown Voodoo Doll

Link: Derren Brown – Astrology Test