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I think “retreat” is used pretty colloquially and doesn’t imply pseudo-therapy.

From the article: > “Vulnerability-Trust exercise”

From your parent comment: > the facilitator tried to get to the bottom of tensions between the CTO and head of sales

I was referring specifically to these sorts of things. Retreat doesn't always include this, but sometimes it does, and when it does it's a stupid idea.

"Retreat doesn't always include this, but sometimes it does, and when it does it's a stupid idea."

Unless maybe done by professionals?

I never have been to one such retreat, but I know human conflicts and I know what difference it can make, if skilled people can mediate.

Such professional therapy should probably be administered privately and during the course of a regular workday.

Professional individual therapy is something different from professional mediation between people with conflicts.

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