consciousness-raising

[kon-shuhs-nis-rey-zing]

noun

1. Psychology.,  a group-therapy technique in which the aim is to enhance the participants' awareness of their particular needs and goals as individuals or as a group.

2. any method for increasing interpersonal awareness or sensitivity by teaching people to experience a situation or point of view radically different from their own.

   The women's group has tried to change macho attitudes through consciousness-raising.

3. an act or instance of increasing the awareness of one's own or another's needs, behavior, attitudes, or problems.

consciousness raising

noun

1. 1. the process of developing awareness in a person or group of a situation regarded as wrong or unjust, with the aim of producing active participation in changing it

   2. ( as modifier )

      a consciousness-raising group

Word History and Origins

Origin of consciousness-raising¹

An Americanism dating back to 1970–75