What is it?
Describe practical support without retelling an experience.
Why would I need this?
This practice helps you make your own next step clearer and easier to discuss.
Show me.
- List one thing that would make today easier.
- Choose whether you want practical help, company, information or space.
- Write what you want the helper to do and not do.
- Keep the option to change your mind.
Try it.
Create a short support-preference note.
Watch out for this.
You can leave the history of what happened out of this exercise.
Explain this another way
Try the exercise aloud, on paper, or with someone you choose.
Show me an example
HAB practice example: Morgan asks for a grocery pickup and says they do not want to discuss the case today.
What does that word mean?
Open the full glossaryYou did it.
You have practiced describe practical support without retelling an experience.
