Margo Adair is the developer of Applied Meditation, a synthesis of visualization, intuition and mindfulness that is a very useful way to learn to meditate, focus energy to solve issues in everyday life, and open imagination to develop positive visions for the future. She has taught the principles of Applied Meditation for intuitive problem solving at trainings, lectures and workshops across the States. For twenty five years she has maintained a private practice, working with individuals, conducting mediations for households, couples and organizations, and leading weekly support groups. Her approach to visualization is used by neurolinguistic programmers, therapists and other healing professionals worldwide.

Her two books, Working Inside Out and the companion volume Meditations on Everything Under the Sun, outline the techniques of Applied Meditation as extremely successful way to awaken imaginative and intuitive capacities. Her work enables people to trust their own intelligence and discover their own answers to the problems they face. She has worked in hundreds of different settings, including hospitals, conferences, grief groups, healing centers, corporations; AIDS support agencies, college campuses, jails, youth organizations, labor unions, women’s centers and neighborhood groups. She has a genius for designing meditations that address the specific concerns people raise, providing them with an opportunity to utilize their own inner resources for improving their lives.

Margo works with corporations, community groups, and not-for-profits as a consultant, facilitator and trainer. The trainings range in topic from using Applied Meditation for problem solving and stress management to creating inclusive workplaces so that all voices can be heard. The trainings can range from 5 people to two hundred, since she works with techniques that include a mix of formal presentation and small group work. She is also available for keynote addresses and conference presentations.

Since the 1970’s, Margo has been exploring the subjective side of politics and developing ways to address issues of power enabling people to place their own experiences in larger cultural and historical contexts. She has written numerous pieces on these topics, including two pamphlets: The Subjective Side of Politics and Breaking Old Patterns, Weaving New Ties. These pamphlets have been widely reprinted and influenced the development of workshops across the country concerning issues of race, class and gender. Her ideas have been instrumental in the development of the Inter-group Dialogue movement on college campuses, helping thousands of young people grapple with issues of diversity. Her work has also been used extensively, in the movement against domestic violence and for trainings in corporate and non-profit worlds.

Together with her partner William Aal, Margo founded Tools for Change, an organization that promotes healing, leadership development, and sustainable democracy. The programs, based in collective reflection, open the imagination, inspire dialogue, deepen relationships, and empower people's work. Using an innovative mix of Applied Meditation and organizational development methods, Tools for Change facilitates community and organization retreats, strategic planning processes and visioning sessions in which groups use their imaginations, intuition and analytical skills to create new directions. Tools for Change is sponsoring a national grassroots network of Circles using Applied Meditation where people can develop the support, strategies and courage needed to effectively take action on their values on the personal, community and work levels.