A group of people who meet to gain psychological benefit through close contact with one another.
〈主美〉“交朋友”小组（彼此聚在一起，通过相互之间密切接触以获得心理慰藉的一群人）
Example sentencesExamples
In the 70s, women's protest marches, encounter groups and sexual liberation all made their mark on society.
I'm not talking about a touchy-feely encounter group approach or a hand-holding session.
I was torn between running an encounter group and running Poetry Project.
These groups include community groups (e.g., encounter groups and marathon groups) and educational groups.
Instead, increasingly it operates as a sort of soggy electronic encounter group.
Being in heaven is like participating in a not especially intellectually rigorous self-help encounter group.
I've been on a lot of encounter groups for men, retreats, kind of thing, but they were mostly chanting and howling and recovering memories of parental neglect.
To aid the healing process, he joins a divorced and separated encounter group, where others in a similar situation seek solace in each other's company.
At the end of basic training, the 19 soldiers in his unit were made to undergo a kind of encounter group session.
Taylor says: ‘Women have turned the office into an encounter group.’
Definition of encounter group in US English:
encounter group
nounɪnˈkaʊn(t)ər
US
A group of people who meet to gain psychological benefit through close contact with one another.
〈主美〉“交朋友”小组（彼此聚在一起，通过相互之间密切接触以获得心理慰藉的一群人）
Example sentencesExamples
Taylor says: ‘Women have turned the office into an encounter group.’
Being in heaven is like participating in a not especially intellectually rigorous self-help encounter group.
These groups include community groups (e.g., encounter groups and marathon groups) and educational groups.
To aid the healing process, he joins a divorced and separated encounter group, where others in a similar situation seek solace in each other's company.
I was torn between running an encounter group and running Poetry Project.
In the 70s, women's protest marches, encounter groups and sexual liberation all made their mark on society.
I've been on a lot of encounter groups for men, retreats, kind of thing, but they were mostly chanting and howling and recovering memories of parental neglect.
Instead, increasingly it operates as a sort of soggy electronic encounter group.
I'm not talking about a touchy-feely encounter group approach or a hand-holding session.
At the end of basic training, the 19 soldiers in his unit were made to undergo a kind of encounter group session.