[bellbird]

Excellent, in a nutshell: (Thanks for that Angela)

Judgement is making a decision about a person in the form of a label -- good, bad, ugly, beautiful, worthy, worthless. When a decision is made like that, it cuts off all other possibilities within the judge and any action taken will be limited by that decision.

Assessment is looking at a person and realizing that just like you, he is much more than any one choice he's made in his life, and evaluating your information without assigning labels to it. This way, you create in each moment a new opportunity to make an intelligent and life-affirming choice of your own.

Judgement = limits the person doing the judging
Assessment = frees the person doing the assessing