Encounter group

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Encounter groups emerged with the popularization of humanistic psychology in the 1960s. Such groups (also called "T" (training) groups and "sensitivity training" groups explored new models of interpersonal communication and the intensification of psychological experience. The first groups were experimental efforts by health researchers and workers, trying to move away from the "sickness" groupwork model used in the psychiatric industries of the time. In later years, these pioneering groups evolved into educational and treatment schemes for non-psychiatric people.

Similar to most therapeutic, educational and treatment tools in the human resource industries, the treatment staff, researchers, writers and clients of these groups tended to be YAVIS persons: Young Attractive Verbal Intelligent Successful.^{[[Citing sources citation needed]]}

A commercialized strand of the encounter group movement developed into Large Group Awareness Training.

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