Wad up a piece of scratch paper for each person in your group and give it to them as they come into the group meeting. Tell them to just hang onto it until you give them instructions. Place a trashcan in the middle of the room. Say to your group, "I want you to think about one thing in your life you would like to throw away, get rid of. It can be anything, an item, an attitude, an old memory, whatever. And then after you share it with the group I want you to get up and throw away that wadded up piece of paper that I gave you earlier." After everyone has finished, you might want to ask them how it felt to verbalize what they wanted to get rid of and then how it felt to symbolically throw it away.
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