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Gabrielle Pullen has been teaching three potent strategies for moving beyond trauma and P.T.S.D. since 2000: Feldenkrais®, iRest® Meditation & Insight JournalingTM. Her transition back into the academic setting, has yielded the design of a course called, Resilience Through Literacy: A Writing Intensive, which uses fiction and literature as a medium to facilitate a subtler approach to teaching critical thinking. She is especially interested in the concept of advanced literacy, which she views as the extant skill set of the working author. This combination of writing pedagogy with her background in organic learning theories derived from somatics grounds her teaching philosophy in experiential learning. Her historical novel, The Witches of East Lothian, is forthcoming, about the witch trials during the Scottish Reformation in 1590, a study in the relationship between personal power and the collective, as well as in the strange phenomenon that leads humans to seem to need scapegoats. She received her MFA in Fiction in August 2015 from the Pan-European MFA program at Cedar Crest College, which allowed her to travel to Scotland to research her historical novel. Currently living in Bothell, WA, she is pursuing her Certificate in Teaching Writing at the University of Minnesota, Mankato. Prior to her return to academia, Gabrielle wrote freelance articles for several magazines to promote her work, including Iron Works, The Anvil, and The Horse, as well as working as a volunteer writer and editor for many professional newsletters. You can find years of interviews she conducted for the Feldenkrais Guild newsletter SenseAbility online at www.feldenkrais.com. These articles range in topic from the nature of reality (2009), to, more recently, how to use the Feldenkrais method of somatic education to move beyond grief into the present moment.