Intensive Interaction: a growing world-wide phenomenon

Over the Christmas holidays I did some work helping update sections of The Intensive Interaction Handbook for the upcoming second edition (due out in June 2018 from Sage Publications). Looking at one section, it started to make me think about how the profile and knowledge of Intensive Interaction is now building across many countries.

In the handbook we point the readers to the sterling Intensive Interaction work being done in Australia, Finland, Denmark, Greece and Germany. There is also a list of countries in which Dave Hewett and his associates have delivered training and presentations, these including: Hong Kong, Russia, Hungary, Tajikistan, New Zealand, Cyprus, South Africa, Portugal,  Sri Lanka, Romania, Slovakia, Trinidad &Tobago and Czech Republic.

Also in our Intensive Interaction Newsletter (Issue 58 - I'm sure you will all remember), I listed some international social networking sites for II, including:

Intensive Interaction Australia (at: https://www.facebook.com/Intensive-Interaction-Australia-149574338571931/)

Intensive Interaction Finland (at: https://www.facebook.com/groups/1497688260510338/)

Intensive Interaction Denmark (at: https://www.facebook.com/IntensiveInteractionDanmark/)

Intensive Interaction France (at: https://www.facebook.com/groups/1041373799263424/)

There's even one for South Yorkshire (at: https://www.facebook.com/groups/1798797420399688/ ) which is not an independent state yet, but who knows what t' future may bring!

But things seem to be moving on rapidly for Intensive Interaction. I have mentioned before that I am a member of the 'Researchgate' social networking site (at: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Graham_Firth/), and as of last week my Intensive Interaction research papers have now been read and/or downloaded 1,122 times from academics/researchers in 36 countries (in approx. order of frequency): UK, Australia, USA, Ireland, Hong Kong, Taiwan, New Zealand, South Korea, China, Iran, Spain, Thailand, Italy, Denmark, Finland, Canada, Belgium, Greece, Germany, Japan, Austria, Brazil, Czech Republic, Norway, India, Netherlands, Egypt, East Timor, Russia, Nigeria, Israel, Kenya, Croatia, Saudi Arabia, Singapore, Sweden …

... and there's more! 

This very Blog has now been accessed over 6,000 times by readers in ... wait for it ... 59 countries (in approx. order of frequency): UK, USA, Ireland, Australia, Canada, Greece, Finland, Ukraine, Germany, France, Denmark, New Zealand, United Arab Emirates, Belgium, Cyprus, Norway, Russia, Malta, Iceland, Sweden, Italy, South Africa, Slovakia, Brazil, Trinidad & Tobago, Indonesia, Spain, Hong Kong, Portugal, Gibraltar, Pakistan, Switzerland, Thailand, Colombia, South Korea, Estonia, Poland, Singapore, Barbados, Peru, Fiji, Bukino Faso, Japan, Dominican Republic, Grenada, Czech Republic, Montenegro,  Netherlands, Philippines, Macedonia, India, Lithuania, Belarus, Laos, Mexico, Tajikistan, Cape Verde (I had to look Cape Verde up on Google maps; its a small island state in the mid-Atlantic - I'd love to go!).

So should we now be looking to have more country/regional social media sites being set up to help all our II people hook up together? Should there be an Irish or North America Facebook group? or one for Greece & Cyprus, or one for Africa or east Asia? 

Surely the way to build an identifiable and supportive local Intensive Interaction community, is to start to build an identifiable and supportive local Intensive Interaction community!