struggle session
- noun
- /ˈstrʌɡəl ˈsɛʃən/
:
sesión de confrontación
- The teacher held a struggle session to help students confront their academic challenges and improve their performance.
Examples
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After receiving feedback, the group decided to organize a struggle session to openly discuss their project setbacks and find solutions.
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And now on that front, Mark Harry is going to do some sort of struggle session with the trauma expert on Saturday.
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"The conduct of struggle sessions is not one of my responsibilities," he said acidly, and considered Shan in silence for a moment.
Fiction book (2001) -
In the workshop, participants engaged in a struggle session to address their team dynamics and foster better communication.
Synonyms
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A situation when people or groups meet in direct conflict, often angrily
A meeting where people feel strong pressure and stress
Antonyms
How Confrontational
Surface Forms
Morphology
A B1 learner who knows 'struggle' (effort/difficulty) and 'session' (a meeting) can plausibly infer a literal meaning of 'a meeting to address problems or difficulties', so the basic compositional sense is accessible. However, the term often carries specific political/historical and confrontational connotations (e.g. public denunciation) that are not predictable from the constituents alone, so full meaning requires prior exposure.
Etymology
Struggle session comes from public meetings in China in the 1900s where people were forced to stand and be loudly 'criticized' until they admitted mistakes. The word struggle shows the public attack and session means the meeting, so today a struggle session often means a meeting where people openly point out problems to try to make things better.