Programs for Young People
Michael loves to present assemblies and show programs for young people of all ages. He designs these to be interactive and fun, but the key is to use this fun for the purpose of build outstanding qualities in young people. “Michael is a speaker—but he knows it’s listening that makes great presentations”. He can tailor these for your needs, the age of the young people, and your specific program goals. Michael would love to learn how to best meet your needs.
Please contact him to learn more.
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Assemblies & Show Programs
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There’s So Much Magic You Can Do! Grades Pre K - 5th
A magic show where kids can grow! Magic is not just something children love to watch. It can be a superb and highly engaging teaching tool that creates great opportunities for learning essential social and emotional skills for life.
In addition to his work as an educator, training teachers, youth leaders, and other professionals in all 50 states and on 6 continents, Michael Brandwein has performed magic professionally for decades. His original, fun presentations have been included in books and videos for magicians as expert examples of how to use magic for more than just entertainment.
This educationally designed program uses amazing, audience participation magic to show kids the “tricks” to:
Learning new things even when they are hard
Making good choices
Respecting others and themselves
Staying away from harmful drugs
Protecting each other by not allowing bullying or putting people down
Being persistent, polite, and patient
Solving problems calmly
Handling fears by communicating with others
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Houdini’s Greatest Secrets: How to Get the Most Out of Life by Escaping from the Stuff that Holds Us Back Grades 6 - 12
Want something riveting for young people who have “seen everything?” How about someone escaping from a real — not a trick prop — restraint device in full view of the audience? Michael Brandwein combines his expertise as an award-winning, national educator for teachers and youth professionals with his skills as a professional magician in this unique and entertaining program for middle school, junior high, and high school students.
The “trick” to this presentation is that while young people are laughing and gaping at impossible feats — “Wait; what??!!?” — they will be learning powerful social-emotional secrets and skills for success in school and in life. While presenting both tales and actual demonstrations from the life of the world’s most famous magician, Michael explains little-known facts and secrets about Houdini and magic to teach practical strategies and life skills including:
Our self-beliefs control our actions, so we’d better understand (1) what we believe about ourselves, (2) why we believe it, and (3) what we can do to change it if it doesn’t support our success
How great self-communication and simple positive choices can lead to great changes at school and better relationships with friends and family
Being yourself — following your own best path while handling pressure from peers
One thing — the most important thing — that no one tells us about our brain
Respect for others — how to take control of our environment and reduce bullying, put-downs, and other negative and disrespectful choices
How we waste energy being “stressed about stress” and how to handle it in positive ways
Success is accessible to everyone once they understand that it doesn’t come from magic or wishing for it — we have to learn how to discover the tricks behind the magic and behind successful people
The “tricks” to success in studying, choosing, making and keeping worthwhile friends, and more
Taking charge of the choices we make about our physical and mental health, including drugs, alcohol, and tobacco
This program comes with materials that teachers and youth professionals can use for effective follow-up.
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For Young Leaders: The Leading Secrets to Leading Others Grades 6 - 12 and Older Youth
Michael has done many leadership programs for thousands of young people in middle and high school and college. And please note this opportunity, too: When Michael is presenting staff development or student assemblies in a school, he can also offer to meet separately with young leaders of student organizations, class leaders, or leaders-in-training. The Mission: A fun, useful mini-course in leadership.
This session provides specific examples of what successful leaders do and say.
Participants Will Learn:
There are no born leaders; leadership success is accessible to all of us. It’s not being elected or appointed that makes us leaders
Leadership success comes from identifying and practicing exactly what effective leaders do and say
Reverse engineering: how to start at the end to meet your goals
The difference between being a leader and being “bossy”
Leadership is mostly listening, not talking—here’s how to listen like an expert in all of our relationships
