By the way, the type of blustery red-faced knee-jerk non-response, including attempts to intimidate, are the standard response when a professional persuader gets busted red-handed, with their manipulation techniques being openly exposed.
Its almost 100% predictable, if the persuader/manipulator is caught off-guard, the under-current of anger and rage is clearly visible in person. Their faces can turn red like a tomato, or their mouths will literally gape open as they are unable to respond for a moment.
So the first response is usually a type of angry personal attack, followed quickly by attempts at total DENIAL.
Its an attempt to redirect and misdirect the attention of the audience, using overgeneralizations and denial.
The next step, (after literally kicking the person asking questions out of the LGAT seminar), usually, is to try and reframe what just happened, often trying to use humor and rapport. As in...yes, I am hypno-persuading all of you right now using my crazy storytelling and conversation, to buy all of my products and expensive exclusive coaching services...ha ha ha! Isn't it funny?
If you are there in person, they will put their arm around you, and try to make that connection, and go back to the entertainment feel-good stuff, or soft love-bombing.
That is for the standard New Agey LGAT, selling Quantum Physics mindpower, or Non-dualism, Self-Help, or whatever. They just try to push away from any discussion of the persuasion being used on you.
But for LGAT's that use the content of "persuasion", its much more complex. As they need to admit to certain areas of persuasion, but not the ones they are using on you, or they WON'T WORK properly.
They often will try to do a Turnaround, to make you believe that in fact they are on your side, and they are trying to teach you these complex persuasion techniques.
But the problem is...the advanced techniques are very complex, and they can be dangerous. So he can only teach them to people who are qualified to learn them. So that is why they are so expensive to learn, as they are so complex. So the only way to learn them, is to register for the series of 5 advanced LGAT seminars over the next 3 years, which only cost about 50K, paid in advance.
And you will have to sign contracts agreeing to a gag-order about the LGAT seminar.
And of course, you have to be "approved" first by the teacher, and really convince him to take your money.
The best way to do that, is to enrol in the advanced personal phone-coaching contracts, of course. That is also very expensive, but its because you are being taught secret advanced material, that is only taught in military psy-ops and Black-ops. Actually, they often say they learned it from the CIA, so that is why its so secret...and so dangerous...its SECRET and DANGEROUS...which are great marketing ploys.
And of course, the CIA won't confirm or deny they worked with anyone, so that is awesomely convenient, as it cannot be verified.
That above routine is so common as to be laughable, but it can work, and people do make quite a bit of money running that script.
Its a laughable blunder (again) how Dave Lakhani tries to minimize and misdirect from this type of Covert Hypnosis, when in fact his colleague Kevin Hogan, who wrote the Foreword to his book, does that for a living as his main technique.
And Dave Lakhani is all over the Kevin Hogan website, and teaching "persuasive storytelling", which is covert hypnosis, Ericksonian hypnosis perverted to sales, exactly as stated.
There is a fun game...called spot the lies...and the lying liars who tell them.
[Beware of the outrageous levels of manipulation on the Kevin Hogan websites. Just look at the sick manipulation about making seminar participants sign gag-orders, exaggeration, persuasive storytelling, every tactic under the sun)
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Dave Lakhani at Kevin Hogan's Influence Las Vegas Boot Camp
I get pretty excited when I think about Influence 2010 because Dave Lakhani has agreed to deliver closely held trade secrets to you. In Las Vegas, I will explain to you what a trade secret is and why they can’t go in books or on DVD’s and CD’s and why everyone is bound to secrecy once they leave Boot Camp. [...] But you can’t teach other people this material and we are particularly protective of “trade level material.)
Dave Lakhani isn’t your typical presenter. Dave travels the world each year and earns more money in one day than most American’s do in two years. Part of that is because he has a brilliantly constructed persuasive persona. [...]
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Dave Lakhani is the only presenter to be invited to present at Influence: Boot Camp four consecutive years. Why? The Inner Circle voted and it was unanimous. Everyone wanted him to return this year for more!
Dave is the author of several books including How to Sell When Nobody's Buying. [...]
One of Dave's greatest talents is structuring persuasive storytelling. Story sells. Most people can't tell a story. When you watch Dave in March don't just LISTEN to the stories he tells, watch HOW he structures those stories into his presentation.
Each year I ask Dave to do something...surprising... Last year was shocking. [...]
But I can give away his second module which is, How to Build a Persuasive Personal Brand. If you can brand yourself effectively, you can have almost anything you want in any aspect of life and business. [...]
In this third module Dave will show you how to Develop a Proper Social Media Strategy,. You could spend a month of twittering, all for naught. Or you can make it pay off. You could live on Facebook and never make a penny...or you can follow Dave's strategy for you.
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