Doug O'Brien here with NLP Gym and i'm here with Christopher Walken
I don't know it's Christopher Walken exactly that you're walking
I am walking that I know it's crazy
all right just learned today that Doug O'Brien can do an incredible impression
Christopher Walken. I appreciate that
good to hear that from you nice
so I'm actually Damon Cart and this is still Doug O'Brien not Christopher Walken
case you got confused here and we're in downtown Santa Cruz where we just
wrapped up
sleight of mouth the workshop that Doug O'Brien is famous for teaching and
i wanted to talk a little bit about playfulness and learning because what I
learned very quickly especially just the first night we went out to dinner before
the workshop is your very playful guy and I like I can feel that you have a
very playful state actually kind of puts me in a playful mood her as well and you
teach that way and i noticed how much people responded to that in the in the
workshop and how they really seem to get it quickly as a result of the sort of
playfulness and games that you put into the workshop so that they could learn it
quickly
tell me a little bit about how you came up with that or what was I did that come
about to be your style
you know it's a great question I i think in general people want to be entertained
you know they want to be having fun and want to be engaged and for me
humorous is a really big way to do that people engage and listening because you
might miss something if they don't that's it
but it's it depends also on the nature of what is important
sleight of mouth is fun side Mathis bad are actually engaging with a belief
system changes but it's it's a fun thing to do
when I'm doing something that's perhaps more of a therapeutic nature like
Ericksonian hypnosis you know it's it's also like I have a fun style but it's
it's a bit more serious the games we play our game through their interactions
you know there's a little bit more serious about it but you know all the
time I think it's important to capture people's attention
yeah and he was just one way to do that yeah and I noticed like you know I've
been training with trainers I kind of have a lot of their one liners that are
predetermined sort of funny stuff
you were very improv through the whole thing and have you taken in
improvisational classes
well I haven't taken the proper classes no but I have a wife is an actress who
teaches clown classes and in the stories from the outside in class we do
incorporate elements of improv so net campus taken things that you know from
the track glasses perhaps he's taken a Redback next door but we certainly know
about how improv works we incorporate that into the class event as well I can
certainly tell what was coming through
and yeah I you know I studied slight amount of you know I learned it from
Robert tilts first and I did my own practices and everything but I got to
tell you I really feel like I got it in to the bustle much deeper than I ever
had and when you were to kept doing those inductions and using having us use
your hands and seeing the Plexiglas and all that i really see that now like I
anytime I want to turn it on it's right there it's awesome right
yeah well I can't thank you enough for coming out to santa cruz and teaching us
sleight of mouth it was a lot of fun and very successful works out who is an
amazing experience for me to be back here where I learned it to rock a longer
santa cruz clear there and we buy the dream
in where I learned from Robert almost 30 years ago so it was pretty amazing
- sighs appreciate you having me and there was a lot of fun and we should
have been here
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