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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>L. Michael Hall, Ph.D.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p><p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'><a href="mailto:Meta@acsol.net">Meta@acsol.net</a><o:p></o:p></span></font></p><p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p><p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>When I entered the field of NLP 40 years ago in the 1980s, there was a lot of energy and excitement.� At that time <i><span style='font-style:italic'>NLP was a new dynamic way of thinking about human beings and their potentials.� </span></i>The field was expanding, new models and patterns were being developed and NLP was spreading all around the world.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p><p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p><p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>In 2011, I launched, along with Shelley Rose Charvet, a book that we edited from 22 contributors about the many new models and patterns that arose in NLP in the 1990s and 2000s.� That book--- <i><span style='font-style:italic'>Innovations in NLP </span></i>(2011).� <o:p></o:p></span></font></p><p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p><p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>Some years during the 1990s---2000, however, things began to change for the worse.� Conflicts arose taking attention away from what we had---a transformational model that can change lives with more grace and efficiency than nearly everything else.� I detailed a lot of \u2018the fall\u2019 of NLP in <i><span style='font-style:italic'>NLP Secrets--- Untold Stories </span></i>(2018)<i><span style='font-style:italic'>.� </span></i><o:p></o:p></span></font></p><p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><font size=2 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";font-weight:bold'>Where is the field of NLP today?</span></font></b><font face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>� Not in a good place, we have lots all of the Journals and Magazine; many of the Associations have ceased, and trainings have been seriously reduced around the world since the pandemic. �Further, there are fewer and fewer new developments.� When we asked for responses for Volume II of <i><span style='font-style:italic'>Innovations in NLP</span></i> we only had 3 responses.� This is not good.� If NLP goes away, it will be a tremendous lost for the world.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:6.0pt'><font size=2 face=Calibri><span style='font-size:11.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:6.0pt'><b><font size=2 face=Calibri><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-weight:bold'>What is needed?</span></font></b>� While I can mention many things, one thing is essential--- <i><span style='font-style:italic'>a new focus on modeling.� </span></i>The field began by modeling experts and the field can be renewed if we put a new focus on how to model.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:8.0pt'><font size=2 color="#333333" face=Calibri><span style='font-size:11.0pt;color:#333333'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:8.0pt'><font size=2 color="#333333" face=Calibri><span style='font-size:11.0pt;color:#333333'>The <b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Meta Fest 2026</span></b> that Connor and Kallum have envisioned� offers a great way to begin to rejuvenate the field.� By bringing together many of those who have created the field and kept infusing it with new ideas--- they have designed a <b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Meta Fest 2026.�� </span></b>Connor and Kallum has asked that I sent 5 emails about this .. �Tomorrow I will write more about this wonderful event.� �And amazingly, it is <b><span style='font-weight:bold'>totally free.</span></b><o:p></o:p></span></font></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:8.0pt'><font size=2 color="#333333" face=Calibri><span style='font-size:11.0pt;color:#333333'>Want more?� Click --- <o:p></o:p></span></font></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:8.0pt'><b><font size=3 color=black face=Calibri><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:12.0pt;color:black;font-weight:bold'><a href="https://nlpmetafest.com/register?am_id=michaelhall_metafest" target="_blank" title="https://nlpmetafest.com/register?am_id=michaelhall_metafest">https://nlpmetafest.com/register?am_id=michaelhall_metafest</a></span></font></b><span class=apple-converted-space><font size=3 color=black><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:12.0pt;color:black'> </span></font></span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:6.0pt'><font size=2 face=Calibri><span style='font-size:11.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p><div style='mso-element:para-border-div;border:none;border-bottom:solid #D4AF37 1.0pt;padding:0in 0in 1.0pt 0in'><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;border:none;padding:0in'><font size=2 face=Calibri><span style='font-size:11.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;border:none;padding:0in'><font size=2 face=Calibri><span style='font-size:11.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;border:none;padding:0in'><font size=2 face=Calibri><span style='font-size:11.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;border:none;padding:0in'><font size=2 face=Calibri><span style='font-size:11.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;border:none;padding:0in'><font size=2 face=Calibri><span style='font-size:11.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;border:none;padding:0in'><font size=2 face=Calibri><span style='font-size:11.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;border:none;padding:0in'><font size=2 face=Calibri><span style='font-size:11.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p></div><p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p><p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Calibri><span style='font-size:11.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p><p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Calibri><span style='font-size:11.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'><img border=0 width=224 height=320 id="Picture_x0020_1" src="cid:image001.jpg@01DCD70B.E24A6250"><o:p></o:p></span></font></p><p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Calibri><span style='font-size:11.0pt'>L. 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