Effortlessly Connect Magic and Awareness
With over 35 years of experience in education and a lifetime in the world of illusionism, he inspires people with powerful insights on awareness, communication, and leadership. His performances are stimulating, magical, and get straight to the core.
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René Laurant is a man of many worlds – and the art of bringing them together. For more than 35 years, he has been active in Rotterdam’s education sector as a teacher, coach, supervisor, and team leader. At the same time, he is a familiar face in the world of magic and illusionism. This unique combination makes him a speaker who seamlessly connects content and experience.
As a born and raised Rotterdammer, René knows the city and its people like no one else. In his role as a coach and trainer, he works with young people and adults on personal leadership, communication, and self-development. His approach is deeply rooted in NLP, with sources of inspiration such as Richard Bandler, Stephen Covey, and Tony Robbins. He knows how to translate complex insights into accessible and practical messages that truly resonate.
But René is also: the Rotterdam Magician. At a young age, he became the Dutch champion of magic and has never left the stage since. He has performed both nationally and internationally and developed his magical skills under world champion Richard Ross. He is now also in his sixth year as president of the Dutch Magical Union, where he represents the magic community in an administrative capacity, organizes national and international events, and gives lectures.
Awareness begins where certainty ends – where you have the courage to doubt your own truth
In his lectures, magic and personal development merge into an interactive and immersive experience. Expect no standard presentation, but a story full of wonder, awareness, and movement. René uses illusions, mind experiments, music, images, and personal stories to touch his audience and inspire action. His sessions encourage action, provide practical insights, and allow participants to look at their own patterns in a surprising way.
His performances – suitable for both young people and adults – stand out due to their variety, energy, and immediate applicability. Whether he is addressing an audience or performing as a ‘table magician’ at an event: René leaves a lasting impression. He connects mind and heart, theory and experience – ensuring that his message is not only heard but truly felt.
Every moment of the day we perceive. Our brains have an incredible amount to process. But, is what you see also what the other sees? Do we perceive the same thing? Do we experience the same reality? Or is there an illusion? A lecture that stimulates consciousness about the perception of truth in our reality. Naturally surrounded and visualised in combination with magic!
We communicate all day long—at work, at home, online, in meetings. And yet it often goes wrong. Not because people are stupid or unwilling to listen, but because communication… is just complicated. Take the sentence ‘She said that he did not understand her’. Seems like a simple sentence, doesn’t it? But this sentence can be interpreted in at least five different ways. And this is precisely the point. What you perceive is rarely what the other perceives. There is always a filter between the sender and receiver: experience, context, emotion, culture—and much more. It is not a flaw in the system; it is the system. In my lecture ‘if you understand what I mean’, I delve deeper into this. About why communication so often leads to confusion. About how language helps us and lets us down. And above all: what we can do to truly understand each other better.
Sometimes it seems that certain people can turn everything they touch into gold. Everything succeeds!
On the other hand, there are people for whom nothing seems to succeed. Many dreams and ambitions, but they cannot make them come true.
Coincidence or is there something behind this?
What do those people who are repeatedly ‘successful’ do? In this lecture, we explore the road to success, supported and visually enhanced with magic
The Rotterdammer is proud of their city and has ‘the Rotterdam feeling!’ Every true Rotterdammer knows it, has it, feels it, and experiences it! Rotterdam feels like a magical city.
But, what exactly is that Rotterdam feeling? How can it be described? What makes Rotterdam so magical and unique? In this lecture, René, himself a born and bred Rotterdammer, delves into the proud Rotterdam feeling and the magic of the city. A wonderful way to get to know the city even better in a magical way.
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