Jiggling
Besides silently listening, the teddy bear is limited to only doing things that fall under the category of "jiggling."
What jiggling is not. Jiggling is not anything that is new agenda that the teddy bear might bring to the table. Remember, this is about helping the talker rather than for satisfying your own curiosity or bringing up your own ideas.
Instead, jiggling is about going with what's there and just tweaking things a bit. Jiggling can push the talker in different directions because of how the talker reacts to what the teddy bear does or says.
If you can anticipate what the talker will say next afterward, what you as a teddy bear said or did was probably less jiggly and more too much of your own stuff.
There is a freshness that comes from talking out loud, new and different things happen just by discovering what comes out of your mouth. The freshness that comes from talking to another person may come less from what that other person says or does and more from what's happening with the talker in this new context of talking to the other person. We want to give plenty of room for what's happening with the talker. We don't want what we say or do as teddy bears to get in the talker's way. Hence, teddy bears are restricted to only jiggling. It helps us with our job of hearing each other into speech, into deeper and deeper speech.1