| Abstract:
The literature on ECB processes and programs mainly emphasizes aspects such as methods, design, and mechanisms in evaluation (e.g. Preskill & Boyle, 2008). Skolits, Morrow & Burr (2009) highlight the diverse roles that evaluators hold in the evaluation process such as critical friend, manager, educator, etc. However, ECB is not just about fostering evaluative thinking or learning to foster sound evaluation practices, it is also about influencing the organizational culture and changing attitudes and perception about evaluation. Mindfulness is a process of illuminating evaluator's own values in a social process and creating an evaluation culture. Mindfulness-based facilitation emphasizes the role and qualities an evaluator manifests in his/her facilitation during the ECB process. Hence, ECB facilitation raise the client's awareness by containing difficult emotions as these arise in the process of change. The essence of mindfulness-based facilitation is incorporating values of compassion, integrity, professionalism, care, modesty, and active listening (among others) into all evaluative communication and practices.
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