George Parker

George Parker is an internationally successful corporate speaker/illusionist/mentalist, author as well as Creative Producer of Change & Innovation. He's been obsessed with with the idea that our perspective and focus creates our reality since he was five and committed to experiment with it and discover how it works since he was fifteen.

OBSESSION WITH THE CREATIVE PROCESS

The idea is simple, but the execution is not always easy. While reinventing himself in many wildly different careers (health care, programming, sales, management training, consultancy, (project)management, illusionist/mentalist, theatermaker, illustrator/animator, speaker/author) and constantly transforming his relationships with friends and most and for all his life partner and children, he slowly revealed how the creative process works.

Spoiler alert: there is no fixed formula. In hindsight: duhhh, it's a creative process! But he wasn't that smart at the start because he furiously hoped for an easy way that would work for everyone, always and everywhere. But no, the idea that perspective and focus create reality is indeed simple. But changing our perspective and focus can be really hard and will require different approaches every time.

He did however discover powerful principles behind how we create reality. As well as a universal meta-instrument to apply them.

POWERFUL PRINCIPLES AND A UNIVERSAL TOOL

He articulated the principles as his Three Laws of Perception: 1. Focus creates your reality. 2. Perspective creates your focus. 3. You will and you can change your perspective.

The IDEAL Cycle© applies these principles in an organic way. It's rooted in the fact that everything that exists today and didn't exist before is the result of a creative process: objects, ideas, behavior, events, etc. There are always the five key elements present in these creative processes: Intentions (and realized intentions; Effects), Design, Essence, Action, Learn.

If something doesn't work out there's something wrong with one or more of them. And you can fix that in order to produce the reality you want.

TRACK RECORD

George has performed in thousands of keynotes/LectureShows© in over 30 countries. He's guided thousands of professionals and teams/organizations from vague ideas to concrete results. Alongside his corporate work, George has also written and produced four one-man theater shows: The Fifth Element (2006), The Death and Resurrection Show (2009), 52 Cards and a Joker (2012), and The Hero’s Journey (2017).

In addition to his performances and presentations, George is an internationally recognized author. For magicians and mentalists, he is the author of INDEX-terity: A Revolutionary Approach to a Powerful Tool (Theory and Art of Magic Press, 2012), Performing Magic with Impact (with Larry Hass, Theory and Art of Magic Press, 2018) and initiator and co-author of Gift Magic: Performances that Leave People with a Souvenir (Theory and Art of Magic Press, 2010).

For magicians and non-magicians alike, he is the author of two books on the creative process that are extraordinary bestsellers in the Netherlands: Het Kleine Boek van de Creativiteit (2001 -‘The Little Book of Creativity’ -English version published in 2018-) and Het Grote Boek van de Creativiteit (2004, ‘The Big Book of Creativity’ only available in Dutch). He is also the author of TheCreationGame® Carddeck (2009), a card game/practice that inspires fun and thoughtful creative transformations for the participant.

He is a faculty member of the McBride Magic & Mystery School in Las Vegas and has been both a Keynote Presenter and Guest of Honor at its annual Magic and Meaning Conference.

George is married to Marja Lingsma, a successful digital artist, and together they have co-created Imagination—Reality—Mystery (2010), a book of images and poetry.