Poh Lin Lee
Poh is a Chinese Malaysian Australian woman who 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 who 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 The Flaherty New York, USA |
Just released on Patreon...
Encountering Edges (20min audio only exercise)
Inspired by the present experience of moving across the edge of summer into autumn here is a 20min exercise to accompany you in unpacking what it means for you to notice or encounter edges in your practice, projects or relational exchanges.
Welcoming fragments of experience & collective curiosity in (20min video of conversational fragments)
Frankie welcomes us into their context in the beginning of the video and then together we share fragments of wonderings around these two areas
- What it means to centre fragments rather than fully formed linear narratives in the conversations that we are a part of?
- Inviting a collective curiosity to engage with experience in a group setting
Our multi-storied bodies: how is value assigned? (12min exercise)
Fragment: Our Multi-storied Bodies practices (25min stand alone fragment of practice)
Sharing a single fragment of conversation between Florence, Natalie and myself in a relational and experiential moment engaging with a series of practices I've been developing called Our Multi-storied Body practices.
Florence Chiew is a researcher, writer and yoga teacher. In community outreach, she volunteers as a biographer for people in palliative care. This work has been, and continues to be, a transformative force in the way she lives and participates in the world.
Natalie is a Dance-Movement Therapist, Narrative Practitioner and 5Rhythms teacher. Based in Melbourne, Australia, Natalie teaches weekly classes and regular workshops locally, interstate, and in Europe. She likes to describe herself as a midwife on the dance-floor, helping people to give birth to their more enlivened, more expressive, more passionate and compassionate selves.
Florence Chiew is a researcher, writer and yoga teacher. In community outreach, she volunteers as a biographer for people in palliative care. This work has been, and continues to be, a transformative force in the way she lives and participates in the world.
Natalie is a Dance-Movement Therapist, Narrative Practitioner and 5Rhythms teacher. Based in Melbourne, Australia, Natalie teaches weekly classes and regular workshops locally, interstate, and in Europe. She likes to describe herself as a midwife on the dance-floor, helping people to give birth to their more enlivened, more expressive, more passionate and compassionate selves.
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
Our multi-storied bodies is a naming of a series of practices that resists solely clinical, biological and scientific approaches by situating in community/group/collective ethics and ideas. It holds at its heart multiple bodies of ancestral, ecological, embodied, cultural, spiritual, political and philosophical knowledges to keep us accountable in making space for subjugated voices and experiences and continually addressing the presence of dominant hierarchical forces. It is about decentralising power and honouring the multiplicity of experiences through polyvocal fragments of story and expression. It is significant in its slow paced co-research which is highly influential and political in resisting linear movements; refusing to rest on singular expressions, meanings or truths and refusing to participate in ableism, progress and outcomes.
Poh is currently offering these practice ideas in group, individual and workshop consultation contexts and writing up this work for publication.
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.
Collateral Journal
Poh is currently collaborating on an article to feature in a new series looking at conversations about conversations. Publication set for 2023.
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
Our multi-storied bodies is a naming of a series of practices that resists solely clinical, biological and scientific approaches by situating in community/group/collective ethics and ideas. It holds at its heart multiple bodies of ancestral, ecological, embodied, cultural, spiritual, political and philosophical knowledges to keep us accountable in making space for subjugated voices and experiences and continually addressing the presence of dominant hierarchical forces. It is about decentralising power and honouring the multiplicity of experiences through polyvocal fragments of story and expression. It is significant in its slow paced co-research which is highly influential and political in resisting linear movements; refusing to rest on singular expressions, meanings or truths and refusing to participate in ableism, progress and outcomes.
Poh is currently offering these practice ideas in group, individual and workshop consultation contexts and writing up this work for publication.
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.
Collateral Journal
Poh is currently collaborating on an article to feature in a new series looking at conversations about conversations. Publication set for 2023.
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.