Behavior: A Weekend Encounter: Strength from the Group

Senior Editor Leon Jaroff recently spent a weekend with a Cleveland encounter group. Here he reports on his experiences:

ABOUT the only thing that the dozen participants in Personal Growth Lab had in common was their need for the giant-size box of Kleenex conveniently placed on a round table littered with coffee cups and cigarette butts. Nearly everyone was in tears at least once during the emotion-charged weekend encounter in the basement activities room of the Methodist Church of the Redeemer in Cleveland Heights, Ohio, and two of the women wept almost continuously. Otherwise, we represented a diverse group: a married couple,...

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