English Social Sciences Psychology

I'm proofreading a document translated into Italian and need confirmation about my understanding of this term in the source document.
It's about training courses and the relationship between the trainer and trainee and the risk of emotional and sexual involvement.
My understanding is that it refers to the initial situation, the baseline, before people know each other.
Thanks in advance

This is the paragrpah
Feelings of infatuation and sexual attraction arising from this shift in relationship may obscure
the needs that initially prompted those involved to engage in the training. We strongly
request that you attend to these feelings responsibly and with high priority. Agreements
made by participants or trainers in their *home situation* may become disregarded in this
state; agreements may be broken without consideration of potential consequences