Brielle Elise Martinez, MA, PTC

Brielle is a women's facilitator, scholar of myth (MA), storyteller, writer, and Professional Transformative Coach in private practice for nine years.

She helps women sing over the bones of their life through storytelling, writing, and transformative coaching. Whether in person, online, or through the written word, Brielle's gift is curating deep, authentic experiences that transport women to the place they want to be within — the realm of the soul.

The inspiration of all of her work is to midwife women on their Heroine's Journey return to the feminine (as body, feeling, instinct, earth, and soul), for the collective healing of the "Big Story" of humanity, so wounded by man's untempered pursuit of power and progress that is constricting the world-soul. Her work is a full-bodied prayer for our collective healing, specifically through the agent of woman, believing women to be specially empowered water-bearers of the Aquarian age — the age of riding out the torrential floods and planting seeds of a new era with gifts from the Otherworld. In the words of one of her teachers, this is the age of the "Great Remembering".

Brielle completed her Master of Arts in the Poetics of Imagination under the supervision of Dr. Martin Shaw in 2021, and wrote her thesis of unearthing the primordial feminine in culture through the language of imagination. In 2024 she completed a 3-month

storytelling training in England that left a powerful impression of the power of village-culture to heal the isolation, perfectionism, and rush of modernity. Inspired by this she co-founded a folk school in Gainesville, FL to nurture grassroots community connection around old ways of human-being.

She teaches post-feminist perspectives to help women heal from the unintentional tradeoffs of (capitalist) liberal-feminism, and re-member their basic female needs, instincts, and vital life-force energy. Her vision is to help advance women's collective consciousness from the necessary but incomplete stage of independence (liberal feminism), with its masculine-dominant shadows of over-functioning, hyper-independence and suppression of life-force-energy, to the culminating "third stage" of sacred union between self and other/Other, rooted in interdependence, respect for sexual difference, and a life-giving reunion of opposites within.

Since being in private practice since 2016, Brielle has accumulated thousands hours of 1:1 sessions and group work. When she is not nurturing women and community, she is relaxing at home with her loving partner and cat.

Trainings, Certifications, and Educational Experiences

Current: Dreaming Elk: Private mentorship with Norse mythologist and ritualist, Andreas Kornevall
2024: Storytelling for Transformative Change, Emerson College, UK
2023: We Will Dance with Mountains, Dr. Bayo Akomolafe
2021: Master of Arts, Poetics of Imagination (Mythology), Dartington Arts School in assoc. with University of Plymouth, UK
2020: Gateless Writing Teacher Certification, Suzanne Kingsbury
2020: Professional Certified Coach (PCC) certification, International Coach Federation (ICF) — pending renewal
2020: Professional Transformational Coach (PTC) certification - Satvatove Institute School of Transformative Coaching
2018: The Great Remembering: Daoist Sacred Sexuality Course, Sarah Byrden
2016: Bolad's Kitchen, Martín Prechtel
2016 - 2020: Coaching Excellence Program, internship with LCSW and Master Certified Coach of the Satvatove Institute
2015: Principles and Practices of Transformative Coaching, Satvatove Institute (ACTP, ICF-approved coach training program)
2013: Bachelor of Science in Business Administration, minors in Women's Studies and Sustainability - University of Florida