Last Saturday was one of those days you remember for a very long time, even though I then forgot everything. Leaving Milan Friday evening heading for Lake Maggiore we got to the enchanting, snow-filled village of Stresa. We have the whole troop onboard: besides me and Fulvia, there are our own three children, and two others, slightly more grown-up, following us in a Smart car. Snow and lights shine in everyone’s eyes, making the atmosphere really Christmassy. After losing ourselves along with the GPS through the narrow little streets of the village, we find the perfect B&B for us: “The Squirrel and the Nut”.

The owner gives us a warm welcome (though, like us, he must have been half frozen)and he leads us in the dark to the flat that overlooks the garden. We leave our stuff and go and meet Daniele at the huge Conference Centre: 11 halls, one of which is massive and looks like a real theatre. Darkness, snow and silence all around, and an empty theatre to the delight of the children who are running to and fro, playing hide-and-seek, popping up all over the place.

The lights go out and all together in the front row we watch some evocative videos Max is downloading from YouTube. It’s great fun. 9 o’clock is long gone and we’re feeling a bit hungry. We call a nearby  Runner Pizza delivery which, they say is 20 km away, and negotiate for a large number of pizzas to be delivered right to the door. They beg us to go and get them ourselves and not play these stupid tricks of giving false addresses, like a cinema, a theatre or a conference hall.

We are adamant and an hour later a half frozen guy arrives on a scooter. Under a melting layer of frost, his face is getting back some expression. He looks at me and says: “It’s my first day, you know, but I’m not sure it’s the thing for me.” I answer with absolute certainty: “Yes it is. Otherwise you wouldn’t be here now.” Confused he looks at me. As well as the usual tip, I feel like giving him something more and say: “Would you like a different job?” His eyes tell me that yes, he would. “Well, the best way to stop doing what you’re doing is to do it well. If you do it well, someone will soon ask you to do something else.” This time the boy looks at me disconcerted, quickly gathers up the change and escapes slowly without running from this weird group of fanatics.

We have no knives and the pizzas aren’t cut up: a job done without care, that pizza maker will continue to do just that for a long time and with no great success. We start rolling up the pizzas and biting into them animal style. Mozzarella cheese is everywhere. The children are swimming in olive oil up to their elbows, their faces covered with a strange tomato-flavored suntan cream. Fulvia arrives with a pair of scissors and cuts through the red tomato tape, making it easier for us. There’s nothing to drink. We are tempted to call back the boy who will have got back to base by now, but we have pity on him and all go to the toilets, to drink water from the tap, as we used to at school.

Fulvia and the girls are preparing the book stall for tomorrow and the children are helping (to make it a much more challenging task). We are ready! We go back to the flat, PJ’s, teeth, and everyone to bed.

It’s seven o’clock in the morning and we are all awake and out of bed for the seminar. The children are excited because there’s a special event in another part of the conference centre, for them to develop their talents (and best of all to play with other children!).

I go out into the garden and there’s that clear sharp cold that cleans the energies. It’s the right day for transformations. I look at the lake and I see the sunlight making its way down from the mountains as far as the darkness of the water. The sky is clear, giving me the feeling I can do everything without having to do anything.

We have our breakfast in the midst of chocolate, cornflakes and funny toy squirrels the children talk to. In a flash we are at the event. Hundreds of people are arriving and I am lost in the flow of greetings and ideas. Every now and then one of the children pops up, laughing and all sweaty.:-) There’s Daniele on the stage talking fast and furious. His determination is tangible.

It’s my turn and as usual I’m curious to hear what I am going to say. Behind me there’s a slide saying that I am number one in conversational hypnosis in the whole of the solar system, and even beyond, the responsibility is weighty. So as not to get anything wrong, I talk about everything except hypnosis. Particularly, it seems to me I’m speaking about money and its bizarre connection with the divine. One or two rightly get up and go, believing me mad. Most people stay and from their faces I sense I’m saying something grand. As this happens I feel like laughing and I continue to let myself be traversed by these strange ideas coming from I don’t know where. A part of me listens astounded at what I’m saying. The final applause is sincere and excited.

As I take the first step down from the stage it all disappears. I’ve no idea of what I’ve just spoken about. Fulvia comes towards me and says to me: ”Jolly gosh,  what happened to you? It’s one of the most beautiful speeches I’ve ever heard.”

After a while Riccardo, my son, comes over and says to me: “Daddy, at the end I was there too and I heard you. If you want to meet God you have to spend all your money and always keep the window open, even in winter, that’s right isn’t it?”. Well, more or less…

Gratitude is the only word that can hold all that has happened this weekend.
Just one word that tries to condense into a graphic sign the hundreds of emotions, ideas and energies mixed together in these two really special days.

Memories of fragments of a continual unpredictable flux, unscripted, in a total aware improvisation of an extraordinary energetic flux. The event begins and 300 curious people light up with emotion, manifest in their huge applause to welcome us.

Daniele unexpectedly gets down from the stage, leaving his place to an unknown participant who now sits on my right.

My mind travels fast and connects impossible dimensions, leaving to the words the task of letting everything out at once. The person beside me is completely immobile with our book in his hands and only barely breathing, listening. In that moment is the materialised synthesis of the special attention created in the huge room.

Daniele sits in the audience in front of me participating in the conversation with silent, intensely profound attention. Then the music and the affection of the people I know and the compliments of those I am meeting for the first time.

Then on the stage again with techniques, ideas and experiments absolutely improvised and perfect for the here and now of this moment. The energy is tangible and in the afternoon we make it even more present and stronger. In the huge circular room, Daniele is on the stage and in an instant and I find myself on the podium behind everyone and opposite him. Our conversation becomes continuous and more and more fascinating.

Fifteen people get up and get behind Daniele: they are his unconscious. Just as many more get behind me. The two powerful multifaceted unconsciouses speak to each other, listen to each other, provoke each other, clash with each other and make peace with each other and get to know each other much more deeply.

In the centre of the huge room, under the enormous crystal chandelier I go about recuperating Elisa who is at the centre of a circular vortexing energy alimented by the focalised attention of 300 people who love her, hate her, reject her and embrace her.

Another space-time leap and we find ourselves in an hypnotic induction initiated by me in which Daniele sleeps and awakes with awareness in the very dream guided by the dreamer himself, in a voyage back in time that throws us into the present. The awakening is a true awakening for each one of us.

It’s already tomorrow and I hear the voice of Daniele in the corridor, I hear the joy in his words. I come down in an hour and we are ready to start a fantastic day, so light and entertaining where learning takes place in just barely touching the surface and producing profound changes

The force of gravity disappears now and then: thoughts, objects and persons shift easily in space.

An immediate hypnosis creating a sensitive and powerful sea in a person who wasn’t there before and arrives in an instant on stage. The waves reach every single unconscious present and the collective unconscious of all.
And then the moment of choice: 60 people remain in the room, those with the strongest intent in the here and now. Welcome to the Monster Club. We will meet again, as you know, with at least 48 hours notice. ))

Last Sunday was a great day.
It was the day my new book, written with Daniele Bogiatto, the web guru, came out.
What’s it about?

Just imagine:

-two people meet for the first time, for five minutes;

-the second time by chance in London and they decide to write a book together which will combine hypnosis and web marketing;

-one of them leaves for the USA and they start writing the book long-distance, like a cognitive dialogue between their respective skills;

-the dialogue becomes passionate and less technical;

-they decide to print it just the way it is, showing everything that has passed through the only means of communication chosen;

-the other one gets back from the USA after just over two months since the writing started and …

-the book’s already out!

It’s something really magical, I guess… as we were writing, it’s as though something deep changed in me and Daniele too… and the conversational process is still going on… we’ve created a free supplement from our first Skype conversation when Daniele got back from the USA.
Marketing has been using conversational hypnosis for decades already, but in the last few years people are turning to what is known as conversational marketing: generating hypnotic conversations within which you can offer products and services. The use of a powerful instrument must follow ethics each step of the way, and a lot of what we discuss has to do with this.
I think you’ll find it very interesting. Good reading!

The title of the book is:
Web Monster & Conversational Marketing by Daniele Bogiatto and Charlie Fantechi.

This is an extraordinary month and I’m taking a few minutes to bask in the sun and tell you what’s happening.
First, I want to thank you, if you are one of the dozens and dozens of people (over 120, I think!) who wrote to me to tell their own story of change.

I have read them all and some of them have really touched me. They will be small drops that I will soon try to turn into a sea of trust in change. I want to thank you even if you haven’t written to me, but you have perhaps spent a few moments reading my messages anyway and shared some of my ideas. During events I often meet people who tell me they read what I write in silence and that they truly enjoy it.

I also want to thank the over 200 people I’ve gotten to know in these past few days, sharing with them moments of conjoined thought that arise the second I walk on “stage” and my mind starts to work of its own accord: once I’m done speaking, I often don’t remember what I just said a few minutes before, but from the affection and interest shown by those who come to greet me at the end of an event, I can tell that I can keep on trusting my unconscious.

The same way I can keep writing right now, sitting on the grass with my legs crossed, on a beautiful day, without worrying about the details of style.

What’s going on in my mind? Lots of things, let’s set them out.

Here are my notes:
1) On Sunday 12 September, Ipnosi per il Benessere (Hypnosis for Wellbeing), in Milan, free for those who haveve purchased the box-set 21 Giorni di Ipnosi (21 Days of Hypnosis) – I will make sure that, as well as the techniques to control pain, to enhance the immune system and to manage emotions, people can learn how to make their lives better and more satisfying. (I’m hoping there will be at least 100 people!)

2) The crazy book I’ve written with Daniele Bogiatto (the web guru) is coming out, and I absolutely have to let everybody know in the next few days (I met Daniele two months ago, only twice, and we’ve written a book long-distance, practically an incredible correspondence, we’re about to go into print … we’re crazy!)

3) I will be at the Bob Proctor event on 18 September, organized by Alvise and the friends at Macro, who I’m always happy to see.

4) I go on preparing something special for the (free) three day course Ipnosi per Vendere (Hypnosis for Sales). “Only” 196 people booked the course instead of the over 800 that have purchased the box-set… has anyone told the other 600 people that a course which costs 1100 euro is being held and that they can now attend it for free? But, anyway, maybe it’s better like this, because the hall only holds about 200 people.

These are my notes for now. I could add that we are getting ready for the Robert Dilts  event, on 2 and 3 October in Florence and that in August I wrote another book (in secret!) about wealth in reverse, but I’ll talk about that later.
I’ll get back to work. Actually, I don’t have a job, so I’ll send this email to the office to have it delivered to you and take a stroll in the park.
I’ve discovered that what the Prophet says is true: “the earth loves being caressed by your bare feet and the wind adores playing with your hair.”

See you soon.

Charlie

PS. Oh! There are also 8 Master in Counseling courses starting in 8 different cities. Get in touch, I want to have you on my team.