Mentalism workshop
Your team learns theatrical mind reading and performs it for each other.
A hands-on mentalism team building workshop for corporate groups. Kostya Kimlat teaches the methods step by step, and everyone leaves able to perform at least one piece of it.
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Fooled Penn & Teller
on national television
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1,000+
corporate events and conferences
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5.0 on Google
across hundreds of reviews
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1:29 · Highlights from one session
What you’re booking
A team session everyone can take part in.
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Nobody has to perform alone.
They work in pairs from the first demonstration, trying a method on the person beside them before anyone tries it on a room. The most reserved person on the team is never called to the front.
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They learn the real method.
Each method is shown slowly, explained, and then handed over for your people to try while he’s still in the room to fix what they get wrong.
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Nobody has to share anything personal.
They’re learning a craft with rules, and they get to know each other while they’re busy getting the same thing wrong together.
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He does this for a living.
Kostya fooled Penn & Teller on national television. Your team learns the craft from someone who performs it at that level.
The session
The session runs in three parts.
The parts run in order, and the middle one takes up most of the time.
01 / 03 Part one
He performs it first.
Before anything is explained, the room watches it happen to people they know.
It might be a borrowed object, a word nobody said out loud, or a number written down before anyone chose it. The goal is to give them something specific they want explained.
- Every method he teaches, he performs first
- Volunteers come from wherever they’re sitting
- No prior interest in magic required
02 / 03 Part two
They learn it.
The longest part of the session, and the one they talk about afterward.
He takes one effect apart, hands out what they need, and they try it on the person next to them. It usually doesn’t work the first time, which gets the room laughing and helps the method stick.
- Everyone works in pairs, with no solo performances
- They practice on each other, never on an audience
- He works the room while they try it
03 / 03 Part three
They keep it.
Everyone leaves with the method written down, so it survives the drive home.
A companion workbook, Secrets of Mentalism, goes home with every participant, with the effects he taught written out step by step.
- One workbook per participant
- Step-by-step write-ups of what they learned
Why teams book it
What your team gets.
Something they can actually do.
They leave able to perform a piece of mentalism for their family at dinner that night.
Introverts tend to do well at this.
They practice in pairs at a table, away from the front of the room, and the people who end up being good at it are rarely the loudest ones on the team.
They talk to people they never talk to.
Pairs get shuffled. Someone from finance spends the session failing at the same thing as someone from ops, and that beats a name tag and a networking hour.
One less thing on your run sheet.
He brings what the exercises need, works with the room you have, and sends promotional copy and images for your internal comms.
It scales to the room you have.
It works for 5 to 50 people, and for groups of 100 to 200 with extra facilitators. The exercises change with the size of the group, and everyone still performs.
Planning
How it works.
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01 · You send the date.
Send your date and you’ll hear from Kostya’s team within one hour during business hours, with his availability or the questions the team needs answered before quoting.
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02 · A short call.
How many people, what the day is for, and whether this is the whole agenda or one block inside it. Ten minutes is usually enough.
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03 · We send everything.
What the room needs, what to put in the calendar invite, and promotional copy and images for your internal comms.
On the day, he arrives early to set the room, lay out the materials, and talk to whoever is running it.
Questions
What planners ask.
Do our people need any experience with magic?
None. He starts from nothing and assumes nobody in the room has ever held a deck of cards. Anyone who already has an interest in it will still find plenty they haven’t seen.
What if someone doesn’t want to take part?
They can sit and watch, and nobody will push them. Most of them join in during the first exercise, since it happens right at their own table.
How long does it run?
60 to 90 minutes. Tell us what sits either side of it in the agenda and we’ll tell you what fits.
How many people can take part?
Kostya runs it on his own for 5 to 50 people. For groups of 100 to 200, he brings extra facilitators. The exercises change shape with the size of the group.
How is this different from his keynote?
The keynotes are talks with magic in them, built around a business idea. This is a workshop: the point is that your people leave able to do something they couldn’t do that morning.
What does it cost?
It depends on the size of the group, the date and the travel involved. Send the date and the group size, and you’ll get a specific quote.
Give them something they can do.
You’ll hear from Kostya’s team within one hour during business hours.