Awareness

Perhaps the greatest challenge and opportunity the DiaNova Foundation has is to pursue as many fronts as possible for the widespread awareness of Intimacy Anxiety: that it exists, that it entails a spectrum of severity, that millions have issues on that spectrum and that it’s time to work with it to clear the path for those millions and offer them resources for a more integrated life. As with other psycho-social-emotional issues, awareness involves a multi- pronged approach: educating and sharing information with health practitioners, academicians in related fields, potential clients, vocations who have some interface with persons who have landed on the intimacy anxiety spectrum and the general public.

Our goals here are also wide-reaching and of necessity need to be for us to get the cultural penetration and behavioral shifts we are looking for:

• We seek to have Intimacy Anxiety and Intimacy Anxiety Disorder to be household words, familiar and normalized
• We see to have schools at all educational
• Levels participating in teaching about and making aware the existence of issues relating to Intimacy Anxiety
• We seek to have Intimacy Anxiety Disorder awareness sessions an automatic program after sexual trauma

Certainly on our part we will do everything we can to increase this awareness through running our educational certification programs, creating future extensions of this learning into advanced programs at the Masters and PhD levels, create and distribute written and digital forms of marketing materials that make learning about IAD simple and accessible, and working constantly to become the focal point around the globe with respect to this issue, it’s existence and the manner in which to best address it’s tempering.