In 2026, there will be 1 one “Misty & The SandMan’s Stage Hypnosis BootCamp.”
• Deschutes County Fair, Redmond, Oregon •
July 29 – August 2, 2026
This class is the Boot Camp’s 19th incarnation and our only Stage Hypnosis Boot Camp in 2026.
An advantage of one-on-one stage Hypnosis training is watching others perform multiple shows.
You can also do tag-ins if you need a slower progression to complete solo shows. Tag-ins are part of other people’s shows. You do not host an entire show yourself.
The 2026 boot camp in Redmond, OR, has all the advantages explained on other pages of this website. Working with others while they also work on their acts is most empowering. It gives you a lot of permission to experiment because you won’t be developing ideas and skill sets alone.
Boot Camp 2021, 2022 & 2023 took place at the Southwest Washington Fair in Centralia, with over 70,000 attendees.
Deschutes County Fair has 170,000 attendees!!!
The
Boot Camp Schedule is as follows:
Students are encouraged to arrive on Monday, July 27, 2026, in time to join us for dinner. We do an audio lesson to familiarize you with the sound system. We discuss the video.
On day two, we visit the Fairgrounds and set up our performance space, learn rapid inductions, review our pre-talks, and go over how to invite people to volunteer, as well as discuss routines. We prepare to do shows the next day when the fair opens.
We strive to practice yoga, vocal exercises, improv games, and discuss entering and exiting the stage. We never stop working on our music and refining our routines.
Arrive on Monday; class will be held on Tuesday. Bootcamp runs from Wednesday to Sunday. Everyone does a complete, solo show every day for five days. Some years, we do more than one show a day.
Hypnosis Boot Camps are epic. Watching people develop into professionals in a week is empowering.
Six attended the Southwest Washington Fair boot camp. The 2021 & 2022 Boot Camps were full. We conducted two Stage Hypnosis Boot Camps in 2023.
Arrive a day early to learn the basics of sound reinforcement and video. We work with these tools daily. We get the basic instructions out of the way a day before we work on our shows, so we have one less thing to learn as we focus on memorizing scripts and developing routines.
People often spend too much time preparing their music before they go on stage. We now emphasize learning about various music players, ensuring your music player works correctly, or doing shows without music. Music is not a make-or-break in a show. It is necessary but not essential.
We go to dinner together every night and review the day’s notes. Everyone shares their insights. This pow-wow helps build camaraderie. We find local restaurants that serve adult beverages and are open late, or we cook for ourselves in our Airbnb.
90-95% of the week takes place on the fairgrounds. Each performer performs one or more shows each day. We perform as many shows as possible daily, continually gathering new audiences. We gather another audience as soon as one audience member leaves, so the next performer can take the stage and begin as quickly as possible.
Some days at Boot Camp are 12 to 14 hours long.
You will create lifelong friendships because we are all like-minded with similar goals and interests: ” We all want to do Stage Hypnosis Shows and get paid a fair market price.”
Older Blogs:
The SandMan’s Stage Hypnosis Boot Camp at the Western Montana Fair, Missoula, MT, 08/5-11/2019.
Boot Camps’ 10th incarnation was at The Western Montana Fair in Missoula, Montana, with an estimated attendance of 80,000 people over five days.
The lodging for the Stage Hypnosis Boot Camp in Missoula, MT, was a house we rented through Airbnb, and the price was 1/2 the cost of a hotel at past Boot Camps.
Lisa and I had six students.
We conducted a day-long classroom training session on sound and video, as we had used the equipment in our Hypnosis shows at the fair. This basic introduction took place before the fair opened. Most students arrived on the Sunday preceding the event. Some came on Monday, the first day of Boot Camp. We gathered for our first pow-wow just before dinner, then went to dinner together. Following dinner, we reviewed the operation of the sound system and the video.
We walked through the Fairgrounds on the second day and set up our performance space. We begin performing shows on the third day, which is the fair’s first day. We reviewed scripts, did some yoga and vocal exercises, and discussed entering and exiting the stage. We touched on helping people organize their music for their show if they were ready.
The following five days took place on the fairgrounds. Most performers did one show each day. However, one student needed to leave early, so we allowed him to do extra shows earlier in the week; others did more later. They performed as many shows as possible each day, gathering a new audience shortly after they dispersed, so the next performer could take the stage and begin as quickly as possible.
Some people come to Boot Camp thinking it will be an eight-hour day, like in a classroom. They quickly discovered that we spent 12-14 hours together most days, from arriving on the fairgrounds until we finished eating dinner and going over notes.
Every night, we gathered for a meal after leaving the fairgrounds and reviewed the notes Lisa and I took about each Hypnosis show performed that day. Many days, we cooked dinner at the Airbnb.
You will create lifelong friendships at boot camp. It makes sense. We are all like-minded individuals with a similar goal and interest: to perform stage Hypnosis shows and receive a fair market price for them.
Many students are ready to jump on stage, but do not know a strong stage induction. Many of our students are clinical hypnotists, magicians, or have studied Hypnosis their entire lives, but have never performed an induction. To accommodate this, Lisa teaches a one-day Instant Induction Training the day before Boot Camp begins for the first time. This proves to work exceptionally well.
Frank Prince is a professional Keynote and Motivational Speaker. He returned to Bootcamp four times. If you'd like to talk to him personally, ask us for his email & phone number.
