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human potential movement

human potential movement noun: initiative encapsulating self-help groups, encounter groups and sensitivity training in order to attempt to increase human potential.

Noun

human potential movement (plural human potential movements)

  1. (psychotherapy) initiative encapsulating self-help groups, encounter groups and sensitivity training in order to attempt to increase human potential
    • ...the human potential and psychotherapy movements, as well as the more 'life-affirming' New Religious Movements and religions of the self. This was the complex world of the Californian 'psychobabble', of Scientology and est (Erhard Seminars Training, later called Forums Network), of Encounter...1999, Jamie Cresswell, Bryan Wilson, editors, New Religious Movements, Routledge, →ISBN, page 35
    • Rupert (1992) discusses a range of cases where religious or philosophical ideas have been used to underpin business training seminars, including both movements which fall under the 'New Age' umbrella and the so-called 'self religions' such as the human potential movement, est, or Scientology.2000, Peter Bernard Clarke, Japanese New Religions: In Global Perspective, Routledge, →ISBN, page 64

Examples of human potential movement in a sentence

  • est and Large-Group Awareness Seminars: Arising out of the human potential movement in the 1960s were a number of workshops, seminars and training programs.2000, Donald A. Eisner, The Death of Psychotherapy: From Freud to Alien Abductions, Westport, Connecticut: Praeger, →ISBN, page 60:
  • Scientology is thus one of several groups that form part of the Human Potential Movement (HPM) - an umbrella term for organization that offer enhanced quality of life.2005, Christopher Hugh Partridge, Introduction to World Religions, Fortress Press, →ISBN, page 445:

Forms of human potential movement

pluralhuman potential movements

Questions about human potential movement

What does human potential movement mean?
Human potential movement means initiative encapsulating self-help groups, encounter groups and sensitivity training in order to attempt to increase human potential.
How do you use human potential movement in a sentence?
est and Large-Group Awareness Seminars: Arising out of the human potential movement in the 1960s were a number of workshops, seminars and training programs.
What part of speech is human potential movement?
Human potential movement is a noun.
What is the plural of human potential movement?
The plural of human potential movement is human potential movements.

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