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“Through a conscious individual practice and a We-practice, we can venture back to the unfelt and not experienced parts of the cultural experience. We can learn where our personal and collective limits lie, how to really experience challenging events, and thus be a real witness of our time.” (Thomas Hübl)
​“Global Social Witnessing begins with each individual. It is the ability to relate to processes, incidents and situations that happen in our culture. But in order to relate to myself, I need to have the ability to adequately map my outside into my inside … When I can create a physical, emotional and mental representation of (outer) events within myself can I really relate to them. This relationship, in turn, allows me to come to an appropriate (not reactive), creative action.” (Thomas Hübl)
"The secret of Innovation is coherence. We have to create pockets of coherence in the Chaos. When we do that, we bring order to the Chaos, and the more coherence we create, the more organized the cosmos becomes. The order actually exists already within the Chaos, just as the Siddhi (highest realization) exists inside the Shadow, or the oak within the acorn. It’s all just enfolded, and Innovation is the unfolding mechanism. It looks random, but it isn’t. It all follows a pattern and a timing." (Richard Rudd, the 64 ways)
GLOBAL THIRD SIDE: 
From tribal to global consciousness (GK 49)
Robert / Christine / Manda dialogue on “the old and the new”:  
To be elaborated still:
pointing out that this work is “culturally aware and inclusive”; while created in the Western hemisphere, this awareness and healing work around events and traumatizing events has been actually inherent, alive and practiced in many cultures all over the world already, with a variety of competences, perspectives, lenses, ritual and cultural practices
what is new in GSW?  
​An essential new technology, non-local with groups composed by people around the globe, i.e. global frame and holding, hosting; increases relatedness; the world is shrinking, one client (Thomas – PP); conscious emergent working from 4D / 5D witness consciousness – collective update; preparing people to be part of this acceleration of consciousness on the planet; physical presence increases as we are all connected in one nervous system

Witnessing the World in Me / And Me in the World

The Practice and Principles of Global Social Witnessing

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​So many caring, committed individuals, social activists, health professionals and healers, business men and women and people from every walk of life look around them and have no idea how to respond to global events that seem emotionally overwhelming, out of our control and with no effective way to respond and make a difference.  Helpless, hopeless, sad and angry.  Or protected by walls of apathy and cynicism.  But none of this gives us what we long for – the ability to respond, the possibility of finding some restoration to conflict, suffering, injustice.

Global Social Witnessing (or World Witnessing) offers a way to restore possibility, an essential new social technology that’s about turning one’s attention towards rather than away from challenging events in the world.     
First introduced by Thomas Hübl in 2017, it was born from the recognition that collective trauma, mostly unrecognized and often unconscious, is at the root of the conflicts and destructive developments in the world.  Once we realize that this is ‘the water we are swimming in’, our compassion for ourselves and each other increase and more effective healing and peace-building become possible.

This witnessing process, done in groups, creates increasingly coherent "We Spaces" that can be profoundly supportive for growing community coherence and resourcefulness.  Practicing over time, Global Social Witnessing supports new awareness in individual group members, elevating the overall capacity of the group and generating a more conscious holding community for events in the world - a subtle activism for healing, peace-building, and global citizenship.

THE TEAM

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 We are graduates of the Pocket Project training on intergenerational and collective trauma research and integration.  The Pocket Project is an NGO founded and chaired by Thomas Hübl in 2016 and works on…….  our work is dedicated to…… 

Christine Gerike – Christine, born and raised in Germany, lives nearby New York City since 2015. She holds an M.A. in American Studies, Economics, and Political Science from the University of Münster, Germany. Christine is a trained manager of non-profit educational organizations and has worked as a transformational coach and facilitator since 2011. She is a graduate of the yearlong Pocket Project training on intergenerational and collective trauma work.  Christine initiated the first Global Social Witnessing (GSW) online practice in 2017 and has facilitated monthly group calls on a broad variety of world-related topics since. Christine co-founded the GSW Competence Center in 2019, which is dedicated to expanding the practice and understanding of GSW in and for the world.

Manda Johnson – Manda was born in London, England, and emigrated to New Zealand 36 years ago. Originally training in Acupuncture and Hypnotherapy, she has a BA Performing and Screen Arts, Contemporary Dance major. She has extensive post-graduate training in group work methods of J.L Moreno, as well as being a registered Shin Somatics therapist and educator. With a passion for individual and community development she currently coaches and facilitates groups of businesspeople and organizational leaders for Collective Intelligence New Zealand. A graduate of the Pocket Project Restoration of Collective and Intergenerational Trauma training 2017/18, Manda co-founded the GSW Competence Center in 2019.

​Robert Buxbaum – Robert is co-founder of the Pocket Project’s Global Social Witnessing Competence Center and has worked to develop and refine GSW practice since 2017. He also co-created and co-teaches Witnessing the World in Me/And Me in the World, a webinar series on GSW Principles and Practice. Robert is a certified coach, social activist, and former executive leader of large-scale public and private organizations. He is a senior student and graduate of Thomas’ Hübl’s Timeless Wisdom and Pocket Project training, a member of Thomas’ Core Group, and facilitates groups and workshops.

Webinar survey comments to use as testimonials throughout site.  We should get more from our practice group.
​Select Survey Comments for GSW Webinar Series – July/August 2020 (for testimonials)
 
I was often surprised by the descriptions of other participants, their ability to respond with nuance
to the exercise of witnessing for example; the quality of allowing the experience to be. 
More often I was surprised by the quality in the team, to hold space with such gentle acknowledgement, whatever was shared. Thank you. An important contribution to safety. 
 
I am only just starting to understand a tiny bit about Global Social Witnessing,
but I can sense that something in me is opening up again in connection to the world.
Feeling a lot of gratitude.
 
And I cannot give words to it, but I can sense that your offer of bringing your knowledge 
about the Global Social Witnessing, is very much needed. Important.  Thank you for doing so. Please keep doing so. 
 
I feel deep respect for everyone who contributed to the creation and organization of the concept, structure of the GSW and the webinar series, to see how a heartfelt inspiration and mission became manifest and brought such an amazing tool into the world, with deep healing and transformational qualities. Thank you. Wish you a beautiful continuation.
 
I am just very grateful and excited about what I have learned, discovered, experienced!
 
Hanneke V.
 
For those interested in learning more about Global Social Witnessing in a safe, supportive caring group environment this webinar series offered by students of Thomas Hubl is highly recommended.
 
Linda W.
 
Safety and support I found excellent! Great container, good ways to take care of people who were challenged. The one on one coaching was very valuable and of great value for support!
 
I take the "subtle" realm WAY more serious. If we all could more fully feel what we do, the world would be a different place. This knowledge will be part of my work in the world. I really clicked that this practice or similar ones are crucial for the shifts I want us to make.
 
Loved it! I think it was excellent! Very inspired!
 
This work is crucial in our time. To fully feel what we do, what happens in the world is so much needed. Christine, Manda and Robert share profound knowledge, accumulated experience and their love for this work. Highly recommended!
 
Christopher T.
 
it fully met my expectations - thanks for offering the mentoring sessions. It was a huge benefit for me
 
I found "the teachers" very authentic and walking their talk. It was a good example for me of how to incorporate the principles.
 
I got an idea of what the GSW practice is about and it motivated me to continue making experiences with it.
 
A great introductory "course" to GSW - I enjoyed the facilitation!
 
Carina S.
 
What increased a lot is my deeper understanding for the "structure or matrix" of collective trauma and how GSW can influence the reframing of history of one human being or a whole collective.
 
I loved the mixture of theory in the beginning and then the applied practice. this was very helpful to me. also when you as facilitator highlighted the principles while the practice...
 
I think that GSW helped me a lot to reframe or transcend this thinking habit of victim/persecutor/rescuer
 
I felt super safe and comfortable to speak and share "unfiltered" from my heart
 
I felt very safe in the space that Robert, Christine and Manda provided. the practice of GSW influences my daily life. I perceive that my capacity for challenging situations that I face in daily life has grown. it's a beautiful practice to take part in what happens in the world. and I think very important to practice collective intelligence, that the "bigger" problems in the world are calling for!
 
Angela V
 
I felt there was a lot of integrity in all three teachers in incorporating/demonstrating the GSW Principles of Practice
 
I felt there was a high degree of safety and support offered and received.
 
My overall assessment is that the webinar series was extremely well thought out, collaboratively developed and shared amongst the three facilitators, and that there was integrity in demonstrating the principles and practice.
 
I found this webinar series on introducing the Principles and Practices of Global Social Witnessing was a wonderful opportunity to get hands on practice of this new modality of interfacing, relating to and potentially impacting the wider social/global field. I found it extremely well put together, held with a high degree of integrity to the material by the three facilitators, with opportunity for learning, experiencing and relating within a small community of fellow learners.
 
Wendy W

​FURTHER WEBSITE ASPECTS TO BE INCORPORATED.
Approach:  
Cohering / Witnessing / Presencing  
World -  World Witnessing is global social witnessing, relating to news and events in the world
We - online We-space ritual thru relational coherence building – a new essential social technology
I - creating awareness of my personal experience in relation to the larger social fabric
Presence is about an alive participation for every one of us to become a grown up, mature citizen of this world. 

Voices / Feedback:
See feedbacks on our webinar training 2020



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What we offer: 
Monthly GSW Practice spaces where we witness world events and world related topics (fee per session USD 10.00??)
Online-Webinar-Trainings on “Witnessing the World in Me / Me in the World - The Principles and Practices of GSW” for educators, change makers, artists, activists, and others interested in exploring healing and global citizenship thru collective relational spaces
Online-Webinar-Trainings and Mentorship programs for GSW group facilitators
For further information, please contact:  [email protected] 
We partner with:  
pocket project.org, globalsocialwitnessing.org, IfGIC, ubiquity online university, inner science academy by Thomas Hübl. 
We believe that there are many ways and situations where Witnessing  offers great --------
because being meaningfully related to events and others in the world has a powerful effect. The experience of homecoming that is enlivened through participation in a witnessing practice group grows autonomy and intimacy, love and connection, beyond anything we can create alone. The overall base health of individuals, the community or organisation is enhanced, leading to informed right action.
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activism from response rather than reaction. ​