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
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 members of the titular quartet, who met in an encounter group, use doo-wop songs to preach radical nonattachment.
From New York Times ● May 7, 2015
The encounter group, a general descriptive term, is intended to include many variants.
From Marriage Enrichment Retreats Story of a Quaker Project by D. R. (David Robert) Mace
