An Evening with Motivational Hypnotist Wayne Lee

An Evening with Motivational Hypnotist Wayne Lee

Rosanne Fortier News Correspondent

Mundare Fire and Rescue offered a night out on the town for all adults at An Evening with Wayne Lee at Mundare Recreational Centre on October 15.

Glenda Dales was the Coordinator for this event. “There were 116 people who attended and we raised around $4,000. We hosted this event to raise funds for our new fire station in Mundare because we have out grown our fire hall.

This night was just the beginning of events we will be hosting to raise money for this project which will probably be completed five years down the road. The town will be paying for the building. We just want to contribute a tiny bit and we want to bring the community into it.”

The evening started with cocktails and appetizers. Following this was a full course meal and desserts. There was also raffles, a silent auction and a live auction.

Wayne Lee hypnotizes participants.

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Later, there was a presentation where Owner of Chicken Coop Valerie Retzlaff with the Kalyna Country Quilters presented some of the members of Mundare Fire Department with quilts they created.

Wayne Lee Diduck, (aka Wayne Lee) was the feature entertainer who performed magic tricks and hypnotized people.

Wayne used to be a teacher at Lamont High School. “The kids would know me as Mr. Diduck.

I have been a hypnotist professionally now for over 25 years. Magic has always been a hobby of mine,” Wayne said.

When asked how being a magician and a hypnotist is similar and different from being a teacher, Wayne said, “I picked hypnotism as a hobby after seeing it in a nightclub where I was astonished in regards to seeing people on stage doing phenomenal things. So, I became fascinated with the power of the mind and that hobby grew into a career and became an obsession. So, I left teaching and followed entertaining and educating people.

My whole thought on doing hypnotism is doing the three E’s which are always wanting to entertain, education and empower people so they can get the results they want in life. So, it is very much educational just on a different platform. It is teaching because I believe teachers have to be entertaining to be good and I also think that educators have to be able to teach and deliver a message. There are a lot of parallels there.

In first row are the Kalyna Country Quilters and in back row are members of Mundare Fire Department who were presented with the quilts these ladies created.

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Most of my events and shows are for corporate audiences where the messages are wrapped around peak performances. So, people can be as successful as possible in their professional life as well as their personal life. The one thing that stops people from moving forward in life is not that they need to learn another strategy or more information; they just have to get over the negative thoughts and limit beliefs that stop them from moving forward.

The best part of this career is making people laugh and having people come up and saying that was so entertaining and I also got some really good take away to help me change my life or reduce my stress.

I get so much out of entertaining them and knowing I made a difference in some way, shape or form.

Guests socialize with others after the show.

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It is not hard to hypnotize someone. A good subject can go into hypnosis very quickly. Hypnosis is a natural state of mind. The only challenge is when you have a resistant subject and you have to influence them to get hypnosis.

You don’t need a special talent to be a hypnotist. Anyone can be. Anyone can learn it. I think that they have to have a passion for it and a drive, and that will carry you through to develop that skill set,” Wayne added.