COMMUNITY FOLK SCHOOL
About Us
OUR MISSION
The Wild Twin Community Folk School nurtures grassroots community connection around old ways of human-being — storytelling, song, ritual, music, celebration, craft, and relationship with place. We are a group of non-experts working together to offer wholesome, meaningful alternatives to the perfectionism, isolation, and rush of modernity. Through our gatherings, seasonal festivals, and workshops, we aspire to tend the village fire, keep alive the old ways, and nourish our relationships with land, spirit, and each other.
OUR VISION:
COURTING THE WILD TWIN
Some old folk tales suggest that when we were born, we came into the world with a wild twin at our side who was tossed out and sent into exile, leaving us with an unexplainable ache in our hearts — a longing which compels us to spend much of our lives searching for that which we cannot name, but which gives our lives beauty and meaning...
Our mission is to stoke this fire of remembrance in our community through the oldest ways of remembering — story, song, ritual, and simple togetherness. Our vision is a community alive with the pulse of this wild other: singing songs, hearing stories, and doing what humans always did — making life worth living, together.
Meet Our Team
MEET OUR TEAM
Brielle Martinez, MA
Co-Founder, Storyteller
Brielle is a scholar of myth and transformative life coach in private practice for nine years. She completed postgraduate studies in the Poetics of Imagination under the supervision of Dr. Martin Shaw, and has been weaving the mythopoetic into her work with women since 2020. You can find her work here.
Eric Dutton, LCSW
Co-Founder, Storyteller
Eric is a licensed clinical social worker, therapist, ritualist, poet, and modern bard. He studied poetry in graduate school where he met his wife Rebecca, and is now a licensed therapist for five years. He has been involved in men's groups for years where he often leads rituals and storytelling.