Intensives are like regular conference sessions, but a small group of people will spend either half or all day on one particular topic. If there is an intensive in an area of interest to you, you definitely should attend. Here is why: this is the best way to meet people who share your deep focused research and practice interests. Spending all day with these people will give you a chance to get to know them, and they you. Talk to people on break; go to lunch with other Intensive participants; and by Thursday you will have made conference friends you can spend the rest of the week with.  You will have also found some valuable long term networking contacts.

For example, the Work Environments Intensive is well established and about two decades old. Several long time EDRA members met each other at this Intensive during their first conference. Those sessions have led to lifelong friendships and work collaborations. Jump in and allow this to happen for yourself.