When It Is Used
Use it when a client is avoiding or struggling with unwanted internal content and the practitioner wants to practice willingness.
Tin Can Monster Exercise
Tin Can Monster Exercise is a guided ACT willingness and acceptance exercise for practitioners and clients. It helps clients practice contacting uncomfortable sensations, emotions, urges, thoughts, or memories from an observing stance without needing the discomfort to disappear first.
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Tool guide
Learn more about this tool
Use this background section to understand when the tool fits, how practitioners use it, and what to consider before sharing it with clients.
What It Captures
The tool captures practice mode, selected domains, completion state, brief client reflection, practitioner observation, and values-consistent action link when present.
Limits
The tool does not provide scores, exposure-dose metrics, domain prioritization, or unsupported script language.
Does Tin Can Monster produce a score?
No. It produces a descriptive practice summary and reflections, not a formal score.
Can the client stop early?
Yes. The practice can be paused or stopped, and the partial state is preserved as stopped or incomplete rather than failed.
Can practitioners select domains?
Yes. Domain inclusion can be selected among the supported domains when the exercise is not run in full.