Anne Cullen Puente and April Bender on 6 Ways to Sharpen Your Evaluation with Mindfulness Principles
Hi, we’re Anne Cullen Puente and April Bender, evaluators at the Fetzer Institute in Kalamazoo, Michigan. We were really excited by Michael Quinn Patton’s June 2014 article in the American Journal of Evaluation where he encouraged evaluators to develop our self-reflexivity and deeply consider our own thinking patterns. We couldn’t agree more, and believe that mindful evaluation could be helpful for doing just that. Mindfulness can be thought of as a theoretical construct, …