Hosted by Sonita Mbah. Produced by J’aime Rothbard

What happens when we expand the circle of collective healing to go beyond the purely human world? And how can we begin to address the enormous weight of animal pain caused by factory farms? 

In this episode, Christine Gerike and Michael Grünwald introduce a year-long Pocket Project Integration Lab they’re hosting from February 25 called Ethics of Animal Harm: Wounds in the Collective Field. Opening Ourselves to Animal Welfare and Ethical Violation in Factory Farming.

The Lab is one of more than 40 Integration Labs the Pocket Project is hosting in 2026 exploring collective and inter-generational trauma from a wide range of geographic, cultural and thematic perspectives. [Applications open here.]

Christine and Michael’s Lab seeks to bring awareness to the trauma factory farming inflicts on livestock including cattle, chickens and pigs and how these ethical violations affect our collective well-being. A core question informing their inquiry will be: “What do we turn away from?”

Participants will be invited to share information about factory farming and attune to the many layers of this global trauma field; explore their personal and ancestral connection to this industry; and sense into the many ways in which this topic informs us, and lives in our collective social and planetary body. We will explore ethical alignment, orient ourselves towards what resources us, and reflect, share and deeply listen to what arises in our group field when attuning to this collective trauma field.

Applications Open: The Pocket Project is offering more than 40 Integration Labs in 2026, each dedicated to exploring and addressing specific dimensions of ancestral and collective trauma. To access a complete list of the Labs and to apply to participate, click here. 

Further Resources:  

Ethics of Animal Harm: Wounds in the Collective Field 

About Christine Gerike

Christine Gerike is a transformational coach and group facilitator. She brings her love and witnessing competence to collective topics, guiding individuals and groups to integrate aspects of ancestral and collective fields we are embedded in. Christine co-founded the community practice of Global Social Witnessing in 2017, and has been cultivating it since. She is a graduate of the first Pocket Project Training, the Timeless Wisdom Training, and the Collective Trauma Facilitator Training. Christine is certified as a Co-Facilitator within the Pocket Project network.  In 2026, she offers an integration lab on Ethics in Animal Harm and the Collective Trauma of Animal Factory Farming, together with Michael Grünwald and Gabriela Zagula. Originally from Germany, Christine lives outside of New York City with her family.  She has two grown-up daughters.

About Michael Grünwald

Michael is a graduate of the Global Timeless Wisdom Training (TWT), the first Pocket Project Training in Israel 2018 and the Collective Trauma Facilitator Training. Besides his love for the work with people in a diagnostic laboratory, he loves to work with clients on integrating individual and ancestral aspects of life. While being part of the Core Group (a community of long-term students of Thomas Hübl), Michael conducted a study on the effect of the TWT on epigenetics.