The Evaluation and Development Blow Your Mind Conference was one activity initiated under the design grant for the Colorado Center for Training in Educational Evaluation and Development (at the University of Colorado). Prior to the conference, 3 consultants (a psychology professor from the University of Washington, a representative of the Educational Testing Service, and the program director for the Bureau of Applied Research at Columbia University) spent 1 1/2 days evaluating the past and potential performance of the University of Colorado's Laboratory of Educational Research as a training facility in research and research-related areas. At the conference, these consultants were asked to free-associate and brainstorm on what evaluation, research, and development in education should be. This document is the lightly edited verbatim proceedings of the consultants' input and interactions with other participants. (GC)