Recycling Responding

Helping others to recycle their exploration process involves formulating and communicating responses to the content, feeling and meaning of their experiences. Although we have used these same responding skills before, our responses are different each time we recycle the helping process. As helpers, we stay “in tune” with the new areas of exploration that our helpees want and need to explore.

When recycling skilled responding we are simply using feedback to stimulate more extensive exploring. We may facilitate the recycling of previously explored experiences or incorporate new presenting issues. Recycling exploration in others is facilitated by recycling our responding skills.

RECYCLING RESPONDING RECYCLING EXPLORATION