One day he suddenly heard his name called out in an encounter session, meetings where residents confront each other with criticisms.

"I go away with a better appreciation of what's on your minds," he told the conspiracy-minded crowd glaring at him in this historic encounter session.

Highly emotional encounter sessions, some of which are shown, are used to detach the clients from what are viewed as their dysfunctional families.

Six years have passed since that fortuitous encounter session with King.

During Bill Clinton's two-day encounter session for policy wonks, he invariably mentioned "inclusion" in the context of spending.

The folks in flyover country felt overflown by this swinging bicoastal encounter session.

A teen-age girl, a well-known actor and a hearing- and speech-impaired homeless woman on drugs are among those in an encounter session.

It sure would beat televised encounter sessions with Bob Dole.

This encounter session lasted longer than the Dole interview.

In bringing together people of differing backgrounds at encounter sessions, she sought to eliminate the causes of racism and bigotry.