encounter group

Example Sentences

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They treat their community like an encounter group or Esalen workshop; often, they correspond with individual Hacker News readers over e-mail, coaching and encouraging them in long, heartfelt exchanges.

From The New Yorker • Aug. 8, 2019

Part immersion, part indictment and part encounter group, it guides the crowd through a set program of conflict and disclosure, mixing unscripted audience comments and more carefully composed revelations from actors.

From New York Times • Mar. 21, 2018

Participating in an encounter group, they get deeply, deeply in touch with their feelings.

From Salon • Jun. 19, 2015

With television now functioning as much national encounter group as entertainment, any act of violence or misfortune befalling a major character is immediately followed by a cacophony of anguish and/or rage on social media.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 12, 2015

The encounter group, a general descriptive term, is intended to include many variants.

From Marriage Enrichment Retreats Story of a Quaker Project by Mace, D. R. (David Robert)