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"Our relationships with family, colleagues, friends, lovers, partners are the factors that are crucial in our lives. More than outward success, wealth or fame, they help us to distinguish between joy and sadness, development and stagnation, fulfilment and disappointment. They stimulate us and require us to reflect on our own endeavours and reactions. They lead us to thresholds of emotion and discovery. If we are able to cross these thresholds with our eyes open, then relationships can become a pathway for a kind of initiation that takes us beyond our self-centred separateness into new worlds of inspiring experience."

What really happens in relationships? Why do they affect us so much? Why do we strive for a sense of belonging to a community, but so aggressively assert our individualism? What are the risks and benefits of a real human encounter? Drawing on insights from psychology, philosophy, management, and economics, The Encounter Mystery explores these questions from a unique perspective and offers insights and guidance for developing healthy relationships. Steve Brio develops effective ways to work with the dynamics of relationships in personal, social and business contexts. Meeting another person, he says, is a "threshold experience". Each of us is an unfamiliar world, and through encounters we face developmental challenges as well as opportunities for profound personal growth.

This fascinating book presents innovative ideas for managers, professionals, educators, communicators, and anyone who wants to improve everyday relationships.