Drawing Out skill as opposed to cutting off skill, which is to encourage silence client to share opinion and invite them to talk. There are few reasons explain why client be silent in the group, such as because of fear or anxiety to share, they are still in the thinking process, their personality especially who are introvert, not focus in the group, not prepared to share in the group and so on. One of the purposes to have group counselling is to get different opinions by sharing information with each other within the group. If there is silence client, it might not effective to achieve the goal. So, the group leader should help the member to have greater involvement and help members who have the difficult to share in the group by using drawing out skill.
There are directly and indirectly ways to draw out members. The direct way is leader asks and invite the member to share if the members seem like to comment. On the other hand, the indirect way of drawing out is to call 2 or 3 members to share first, instead of directly asking the silence member to share. After 2 or 3 members finished to share, then the only leader turn to the silence member. Moreover, the leader can use eye contact, the tone of voice to encourage the member to share.
Furthermore, the leader can use exercises to make member be more comfortable to draw out and share. For example, member who is introvert might not get used to share in the big group, so, the leader can use dyad to break into a smaller group so that the member can be comfort and easy to share.