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PHASE TWO: PHOENIX BURNING

Encounter Battlefield: Extreme Attack

If everyone is thinking alike, someone isn’t thinking.

—George Patton, American general

The idea that you create your own imagined attacker who has unlimited resources and that your aim is to destroy yourself seemed absurd. Yet the Encounter experience showed me that I must be my own ultimate enemy. It is the only way to bust through the ingrained views my team and I have that leave us open to attacks.

—Phoenix Encounter participant, 2018

The second phase of the method, the Encounter Battlefield, is the heart of the Phoenix Encounter. It begins with the Extreme Attack ...

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