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 is confined to interactions between separate individuals and usually these individuals have not known each other before joining the group and probably will not continue association afterwards.

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