This capstone began with a practical frustration encountered in community-based development work. Changes such as confidence, trust, dignity, voice, belonging, and shifts in relationships often shape whether a program can succeed, yet they are difficult to carry into formal accounts of impact. The problem is not that evaluation has ignored these concerns. Participatory, qualitative, empowerment-oriented, developmental, realist, culturally responsive, and complexity-aware traditions have addressed them for decades. What remains difficult is sustaining those commitments across the full evaluative process and within the constraints of organizational life. Drawing on work with women artisans in rural India, program evaluation theory, qualitative inquiry, participatory practice, and selected scholarship on embodiment, this paper examines the movement from lived experience to institutional evidence. It proposes an embodiment-informed participatory framework organized around plural forms of expression, recurring reflection, shared interpretation, and careful translation into findings, decisions, commitments, and indicators. The framework is not offered as a replacement for established evaluation methods. It is intended to sit beside them and help programs remain in contact with forms of change that may be sensed, enacted, or relationally recognized before they are easily stated or measured. Its central claim is that evaluation becomes more useful when stakeholders do not only contribute data but also participate in deciding what their experiences mean and what should follow from them.