Poh Lin Lee
Poh is a Chinese Malaysian Australian woman coming from the unceded lands of the Noongar people in Western Australia and currently resides as a visitor on the unceded lands of the Huron-Wendat people in Quebec. Poh comes to her practice through multiple experiences and relationships as a narrative therapy practitioner, social worker, co-researcher of trauma/displacement, writer, teacher, film protagonist and creative consultant.
Since 2004 Poh has been engaged in therapeutic co-research with people and communities responding to themes of experience such as family and state violence, displacement (from rights, land, home, body, identity, relationships), liminality and reclaiming practices of staying with experience and preference. Creative and therapeutic fields intersected for Poh whilst working with people seeking asylum within a film project with director Gabrielle Brady, Island of the Hungry Ghosts (2018).
Poh is currently a freelancer creating crafted exercises and content to accompany people in their practice(s)/projects/processes on Patreon alongside regularly tutoring, teaching and offering experiential workshops across therapeutic, creative and academic fields.
Poh is a Chinese Malaysian Australian woman coming from the unceded lands of the Noongar people in Western Australia and currently resides as a visitor on the unceded lands of the Huron-Wendat people in Quebec. Poh comes to her practice through multiple experiences and relationships as a narrative therapy practitioner, social worker, co-researcher of trauma/displacement, writer, teacher, film protagonist and creative consultant.
Since 2004 Poh has been engaged in therapeutic co-research with people and communities responding to themes of experience such as family and state violence, displacement (from rights, land, home, body, identity, relationships), liminality and reclaiming practices of staying with experience and preference. Creative and therapeutic fields intersected for Poh whilst working with people seeking asylum within a film project with director Gabrielle Brady, Island of the Hungry Ghosts (2018).
Poh is currently a freelancer creating crafted exercises and content to accompany people in their practice(s)/projects/processes on Patreon alongside regularly tutoring, teaching and offering experiential workshops across therapeutic, creative and academic fields.
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Current positions:
Faculty of Dulwich Centre Faculty & Board of Re-authoring Teaching (Recent interview with Peggy Sax) Honorary clinical fellow of the School of Social Work, University of Melbourne Member of the International Advisory Committee of the Latin American Journal of Clinical Social Work |
Sessional workshop facilitator for:
KHM Academy of Media Arts Cologne, Germany Dokomotive Collective Cologne, Germany VCA Film and Television, Australia Attagirl for female and non-binary filmmakers, worldwide DocX Archive Lab Duke University, North Carolina, USA |
Just released on Patreon...
An exercise with disruptive and loud voices
If you find yourself currently experiencing loud or disruptive voices as you go about your current practices this might be a 20min window to take dedicated time with this voice. Inspired by the multiple voices people have introduced me to over the years. And the multiple voices I have been and continue to be in relationship with. This is an invitational exercise - each question is a tentative invitation that can be declined, put aside, engaged with or modified according to your preference in the moment.
Departures
Sharing a little about the context and ideas that has me attending to departures in my practice and conversations alongside a few more questions you might like to receive and see what emerges. What has emerged is a hybrid of sharing, questions, relaxing (hopefully!) and completely unscripted therefore fairly unstructured experience. While I placed my attention on sound in this sharing I thought it was interesting to include the video to not obscure or hide the process.
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Behind the scenes: sandplay & research
Inviting you as a witness to this intimate 'behind the scenes' moments of process. Here you will see a series of fragments from a recent sandplay experiential session as part of a collaboration with Dr Tarryn Phillips on a research project exploring people's experiences of border closure on account of Covid in Victoria and Western Australia. |
Current Projects
Storying Experience Cards
A set of cards and audio exercises to engage imagination, embodied experience and storytelling. For people engaged in creative or therapeutic endeavours that wish to step closer to articulating and sharing lived experience through story. To read more or access the audio exercises click here.
Our Multi-storied Body
Poh has been co-researching and developing a particular way of inviting our bodies in as meaningful participants of therapeutic and creative conversations. Poh’s practice is positioned in resistance to the ideas that totalise the body as a single entity and recruit us into particular relationships with each part of our body (like mining ourselves for resource, productivity and output) which have particular effects on the type of relationship or power we experience in relation to the different parts of our body. An emerging practice shaped by co-produced knowledges with communities/families/couples and groups, and nourished by diverse ideas including community/group collective practice, ecological feminism and narrative practice.
Poh is currently offering these practice ideas in group, individual and workshop consultation contexts and writing up this work for publication.
Collateral Journal
Poh is currently collaborating on an article to feature in a new series looking at conversations about conversations. Publication set for 2022.
The Socio-cultural impacts of state border closures in Australia (working title)
A collaboration with Tarryn Narain (medical anthropologist, writer and senior lecturer at La Trobe University) exploring people's experiences through sandplay co-research.
To see more projects that Poh is currently consulting on click here.
A set of cards and audio exercises to engage imagination, embodied experience and storytelling. For people engaged in creative or therapeutic endeavours that wish to step closer to articulating and sharing lived experience through story. To read more or access the audio exercises click here.
Our Multi-storied Body
Poh has been co-researching and developing a particular way of inviting our bodies in as meaningful participants of therapeutic and creative conversations. Poh’s practice is positioned in resistance to the ideas that totalise the body as a single entity and recruit us into particular relationships with each part of our body (like mining ourselves for resource, productivity and output) which have particular effects on the type of relationship or power we experience in relation to the different parts of our body. An emerging practice shaped by co-produced knowledges with communities/families/couples and groups, and nourished by diverse ideas including community/group collective practice, ecological feminism and narrative practice.
Poh is currently offering these practice ideas in group, individual and workshop consultation contexts and writing up this work for publication.
Collateral Journal
Poh is currently collaborating on an article to feature in a new series looking at conversations about conversations. Publication set for 2022.
The Socio-cultural impacts of state border closures in Australia (working title)
A collaboration with Tarryn Narain (medical anthropologist, writer and senior lecturer at La Trobe University) exploring people's experiences through sandplay co-research.
To see more projects that Poh is currently consulting on click here.
Publications
Lee, P.L. (2018). Narrative Practice and Sandplay: Practice-based stories of collaboration with people seeking asylum held in mandatory detention. Journal of Systemic Therapies June 2018, Vol. 37, No. 2: 1–16.
available here: https://guilfordjournals.com/doi/abs/10.1521/jsyt.2018.37.2.1
La Revista Latinoamericana de Trabajo Social Clínico
La Práctica Narrativa y la Caja de Arena: Prácticas Basadas en Historias de Colaboración con Personas que buscan asilo y que están en detención obligatoria por MNTCW, BSW. Poh Lin Lee
Lee, P. L. (2017). Narrative conversations alongside Interpreters: A locally grown outsider-witness practice. International Journal of Narrative Therapy and Community Work, (4), 18–27.
Danish translation by Dansk Forening for Systemisk og Narrativ Terapi og Konsultation available here section 1 & section 2
Lee, P. L. (2013). Making now precious: Working with survivors of torture and asylum seekers. International Journal of Narrative Therapy and Community Work, (1), 1–9.
available here: https://guilfordjournals.com/doi/abs/10.1521/jsyt.2018.37.2.1
La Revista Latinoamericana de Trabajo Social Clínico
La Práctica Narrativa y la Caja de Arena: Prácticas Basadas en Historias de Colaboración con Personas que buscan asilo y que están en detención obligatoria por MNTCW, BSW. Poh Lin Lee
Lee, P. L. (2017). Narrative conversations alongside Interpreters: A locally grown outsider-witness practice. International Journal of Narrative Therapy and Community Work, (4), 18–27.
Danish translation by Dansk Forening for Systemisk og Narrativ Terapi og Konsultation available here section 1 & section 2
Lee, P. L. (2013). Making now precious: Working with survivors of torture and asylum seekers. International Journal of Narrative Therapy and Community Work, (1), 1–9.