Photos: Gabrielle Brady
Poh Lin Lee
I grew up with the bird song of kookaburras, galahs and magpies. I grew up with blue tongue lizards and dugites. I grew up with creeks and bush filled with jarrah, gum, banksia and kangaroo paw. I also grew up with humidity thick with spices and pandan leaves. I grew up with pepper plant, monsoon rain and dusky leaf monkeys. Now I am in relationship with snow and rivers. I meet marmots and belugas. Pines, juniper, bluets and lichen.
Poh is a Chinese Malaysian Australian woman who comes to practice from multiple locations - narrative therapy practitioner, social worker, co-researcher of trauma/displacement, writer, teacher, film protagonist and film/creative consultant. For many years Poh was engaged in 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. Poh collaborated on the award winning film Island of the Hungry Ghosts (2018) with director, Gabrielle Brady and for the past decade has been innovating with narrative therapy to create workshops and consultations that offer anti-oppressive pathways, movements and possibilities in creative projects and practices.
I grew up with the bird song of kookaburras, galahs and magpies. I grew up with blue tongue lizards and dugites. I grew up with creeks and bush filled with jarrah, gum, banksia and kangaroo paw. I also grew up with humidity thick with spices and pandan leaves. I grew up with pepper plant, monsoon rain and dusky leaf monkeys. Now I am in relationship with snow and rivers. I meet marmots and belugas. Pines, juniper, bluets and lichen.
Poh is a Chinese Malaysian Australian woman who comes to practice from multiple locations - narrative therapy practitioner, social worker, co-researcher of trauma/displacement, writer, teacher, film protagonist and film/creative consultant. For many years Poh was engaged in 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. Poh collaborated on the award winning film Island of the Hungry Ghosts (2018) with director, Gabrielle Brady and for the past decade has been innovating with narrative therapy to create workshops and consultations that offer anti-oppressive pathways, movements and possibilities in creative projects and practices.
Sessional workshop facilitator for:
KHM Academy of Media Arts, Germany Dokomotive Collective, Germany Filmhaus Köln, Germany VCA Film and Television, Australia Attagirl for female and non-binary filmmakers, worldwide DocX Archive Lab Duke University, USA The Flaherty, USA International Documentary Association, USA The Pritzker Pucker Studio Lab for the Promotion of Mental Health via Cinematic Arts, USA |
Current positions: Faculty Dulwich Centre Faculty & Board Re-authoring Teaching Honorary clinical fellow School of Social Work, University of Melbourne International Advisory Committee Latin American Journal of Clinical Social Work Editorial Board International Journal of Narrative Therapy and Community Work |
Film
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Publications
Wang, X. & Lee, P.L. (In press) Chapter: Fragments contain worlds: Encounters between Narrative Practice and Filmmaking in Decolonizing Bodies, Bloomsbury Press. Publishing date February 2025.
Eskioğlu, M.C, Lee, P.L, Snowdon, P. (2023) Unpacking together: therapeutic conversation as co-creation, Collateral Journal
Lee, P.L. (2023) Our bodies as multi-storied communities: ethics & practices. Journal of Systemic Therapies.
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.
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
Danish translation by Dansk Forening for Systemisk og Narrativ Terapi og Konsultation available here section 1 & section 2
Lee, P. L. (2012). Making now precious: Working with survivors of torture and asylum seekers. International Journal of Narrative Therapy and Community Work, (1), 1–9.
Interviews & videos
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