Photos: Gabrielle Brady
Poh Lin Lee
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 20 years Poh has been 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. 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 accompanying people in their practice(s)/projects/processes and regularly tutoring, teaching and offering experiential workshops across therapeutic, creative and academic fields.
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 20 years Poh has been 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. 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 accompanying people in their practice(s)/projects/processes and regularly tutoring, teaching and offering experiential workshops across therapeutic, creative and academic fields.
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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 |
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, worldwid |
Publications
Wang, X. & Lee, P.L. (In press) Chapter: Fragments contain worlds: Encounters between Narrative Practice and Filmmaking in Decolonizing Bodies, Bloomsbury Press.
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.