Who They Are
Tools for Change has been providing consulting, training, mediation and facilitation services nationwide for over 15 years. Founder Margo Adair formed Tools for Change to promote the integration of spiritual and political perspectives to promote personal, spiritual and political transformation to help bring about a just society. She and other associates around the country, have forged multi-cultural and multigenerational alliances in many different settings.
Principle Associate William (Bill) Aal has worked in social justice and ennvironmental issues for 30 years. In addition to working with Adair on the integration of the spiritual and political, he works with groups and organzations on opening the imagination to change, looking at issues of economic and social justice with creative and analytical tools.
Adair, Aal and other Tools for Change associates are diverse in our skills, class, race, ethnic backgrounds, sexual orientation and physical ability. Each of us have a long history in social change work, fighting the radical right, queer organizing, anti-racism work, the environmental and anti-nuclear movements, women’s health issues.
Tools for Change helps organizations and individuals to develop and implement innovative policies and practices that advance cooperation, creativity, trust, democracy and accountability. Our associates have extensive experience in personal and community empowerment, communication skills, diversity issues, leadership development, mediation and facilitation.
Applied Meditations
Includes applied meditations available only on the web and meditations excerpted from Tools for Change books.
Creating Shared Intent for Perilous Times
Useful for any highly charged situation, designed for demonstrations. Excerpted from the book Meditations for Everything Under the SunDownload PDF
Principles of Applied Mediation
Excerpted from the book Meditations for Everything Under the Sun.Visioning Future Time
Only available onlineFaith in The Future
Excerpted from the book Working Inside Out. This meditation can be found on tape number seventeen.
Exercises for organizational transformation
Handouts and exercises to help develop your organization.
The Playing Field
A physical exercise where participants step forward or step back as they answer a list of questions.Helpful Approaches to Conflict
Conflict is a natural and inevitable part of life, not a reflection of something gone 'wrong'. This handout discusses healthy ways to approach conflict.The Dynamics of Tokenism
Creating a Multicultural SettingCreating an Atmosphere Where Everyone Participates
Organizations striving to create democratic relations usually function with the notion that everyone can and should participate equally. Yet patterns of social interaction form currents below the surface, directing how we view ourselves and each other.Concepts for Creating Justice
Looking at Power RelationallyShining the Light on White
Excerpted from the workshop Challenging White Supremacy: A Workshop for Activists and OrganizersPatterns of Power
Common Behavioral Patterns that Perpetuate Relations of DominationConflict Resolution
Problem Solving, Conflict Resolution, and Constructive FeedbackConsensus Decision Making
To Equalize Power Among Us
Despite our best intention we find, more often then not, that we duplicate the patterns of power we find so abhorrent in dominating culture. This pamphlet has some helpful guidelines to help us equalize relations. Excerpted from the pamphlet Breaking Old Patterns Weaving New Ties.
Articles for Justice
The Intersection of Racism, Classism & Gender Oppression In Addressing Domestic Violence and Sexual Assault
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Overcome Liberalism
Pamphlets
To Equalize Power Among Us
Despite
our best intention we find, more often then not, that we duplicate the
patterns of power we find so abhorrent in dominating culture. This
pamphlet has some helpful guidelines to help us equalize relations.
Excerpted from the pamphlet Breaking Old Patterns Weaving New Ties.Download PDF
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