More often, though, we get pushed away from the learning by the organization and its desired outcomes. Once, in an evening session for sales people, a couple of the more aggressive ones got the hotel staff to open the bar. The latter part of the exercise met with drunken excess and even the president, who got up and asked the group to spend about 30 minutes prior to the dance to discuss the learning, got shouted down. It's tough to balance. That is okay, we just want to have some fun.
Intentions are good.