Empowering the Community: A Demonstration of Participatory Methods that Reveal Potential and Facilitate Enabling Connections

Evaluation is most likely to generate meaningful change when its focal communities are empowered, resilient, and connected. This interactive session demonstrates how facilitating authentic conversations that unlock wisdom, power, and creative potential can be incorporated in participatory methods to reveal untapped strengths and foster empowering connections in communities, building a foundation for action. For this demonstration, the focus will be on empowering the evaluation community itself during these turbulent times. Participants will engage in structured conversations using thoughtfully designed prompts that evoke reflection on personal and collective resilience, creativity, courage, and vision. Join this energizing experience to reconnect with your own power, cultivate enabling connections, and discover how positive psychology and coaching principles can enhance evaluation practice.
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