Chris, I would agree with you but it sounds like what your T does is CBT within the context of knowing you inside and out. That's not the sense I get from this intervention. I don't think it has nearly the depth of thought behind it that CBT does.

I see this more as a backlash against so-called millennial behavior. About 10 years ago we were all being herded into seminars to teach us how to adjust our workplaces to the millennial personality. I think that was fine in a good economy. But post recession, business decided it needed productivity more than millennial ego-stroking. So now it's "shut up and grow up" time. I think it's not by accident that this was picked up by WSJ.

But unfortunately, this sort of approach will bleed into populations it's unsuitable for because they always do.