First step is to get together and start talking face to face. A "workshop" can grow out of a simple meeting with a couple of individuals meeting in the NJ/NY area. Since the topic is unusual by nature, the door is wide open to developing a "workshop" lasting a couple of hours, to one lasting a full day, to eventually a weekend. The real preparation for such a "workshop" would be for a couple of us to By the way, topics like "bathroom designs" may seem low on the list of Just click on my name and you could reach me at my e-mail address. I'm just as new as anyone on this site regarding the issues related to parcopresis, but I'm willing to take action with at least one other person to get something started. As strange as this sounds, I'm willing to travel to another state in the northeastern part of the U.S.(besides NY/NJ/Conn/PA) to work with any I hope this helps. Marty G.
actually start "practicing" the graduated exposure method, so we could
teach others from our own experiences as to whether the method would be helpful to most parcopretics, or not.
priorities, but in time alot of issues pop up unintentially anyway.
The International Paruresis Association is working on this issue on behalf
of paruretics. While one would think of influencing politicians on the state
or national area to make changes, what we could do on a everyday basis
is simply to comment to a restaurant owner that his/her bathroom didn't
provide the privacy or cleanliness we had hoped for.
serious person on this project as well.
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