Creative Evaluation and Engagement: Essentials lays out the elements of Creative Evaluation and Engagement, a constructive, assets-based approach for learning and adaptation. Essentials is a newly revised and expanded version of Michael Quinn Patton's Creative Evaluation (1981), designed for purpose-driven changemakers working towards social justice, equity, and liberation. In Essentials, Nora Murphy Johnson and A. Rafael Johnson outline 14 essential strategies that help changemakers articulate their vision, define their purpose, illuminate content, identify guiding principles, craft questions, gather evidence, make sense of data, surface insights, engage, reflect, move, evoke, relate, and care, with advice on how to begin.