The Art of Helping

Recycling Personalizing

Helping others to revisit their understanding process involves building upon an “interchangeable base” to formulate and communicate personalized responses to meaning, problems, goals and changing feelings. Although we have used these same personalizing skills before, our responses are different each time we recycle the helping process. As helpers, we must stay “in tune” with the new issues that our helpees want and need to understand.

When recycling skilled personalizing we are simply using feedback to stimulate more accurate understanding. We may facilitate the recycling of previously understood experiences or new understandings. Recycling understanding in others is facilitated by recycling or re-applying our personalizing ...