Weird is right. So surreal that I never even talked to my friends about it after I split. No one would relate. I think trying to explain Juvy would be easier. When I finally discussed it much much later in my twenties to a few people, they looked at me like I had eyes on the back of my head. And their feeling was that this was some wacko cult. But I was at CEDU over a decade ago and maybe (?) things got mellower after I left.
Whatever the case, I still think you didn't get what you paid for in terms of developing self respect, respect for others, cultivating self esteem, and resolving trauma or issues such as depression, etc. I think the school actually retards your emotional growth but masks the regression with all this expansive sounding lingo and tools.
I think it makes it hard to develop interpersonal relations when you learn to scream, badger, and denounce while at the same time, snitch on your buddies.