Photo: James Bairstow & Portrait: Grace Gelder
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Poh Lin Lee is a Malaysian Chinese Australian social worker who brings together a thoughtful and intricate practice based on her experience and knowledge as a narrative therapist, co-researcher of trauma, writer, teacher, film protagonist and creative consultant. |
Current Projects
Storying Experience Cards
A set of cards and audio exercises to engage imagination, embodied experience and storytelling. For people who are drawn towards tactile and engaged art. For people engaged in creative or therapeutic endeavours that wish to step closer to articulating and sharing lived experience through story.
Exchanging Moments Series
Witnessing people speak about their practice in intimate ways sparked the inspiration to find a way for these to be shared in this strange landscape of COVID-19. I initiated this project based on these conversations and found ways to invite conversation across these different territories and fields, to meet briefly and intimately at the crossing of practice. The hope was that by facilitating the sharing of sections of conversations (chosen by the participants) and linking to other practitioners around the world to invite close and personal responses we might, as a diverse community, nourish and travel across to one another and back without planes or borders. The Invitation to be with a practitioner (filmmaker, an artist, a story teller, a therapist) for 10mins and seeing what we notice, what we connect to, where it transports us in our memories, stories, thoughts, experience and meanings in relation to our own practice. In responding we take up an active role as witness, we receive someone’s story and exploration and we also contribute back. Back and forth, across and around we go, weaving threads of community, conversation and connection.
Currently in edit.
A set of cards and audio exercises to engage imagination, embodied experience and storytelling. For people who are drawn towards tactile and engaged art. For people engaged in creative or therapeutic endeavours that wish to step closer to articulating and sharing lived experience through story.
Exchanging Moments Series
Witnessing people speak about their practice in intimate ways sparked the inspiration to find a way for these to be shared in this strange landscape of COVID-19. I initiated this project based on these conversations and found ways to invite conversation across these different territories and fields, to meet briefly and intimately at the crossing of practice. The hope was that by facilitating the sharing of sections of conversations (chosen by the participants) and linking to other practitioners around the world to invite close and personal responses we might, as a diverse community, nourish and travel across to one another and back without planes or borders. The Invitation to be with a practitioner (filmmaker, an artist, a story teller, a therapist) for 10mins and seeing what we notice, what we connect to, where it transports us in our memories, stories, thoughts, experience and meanings in relation to our own practice. In responding we take up an active role as witness, we receive someone’s story and exploration and we also contribute back. Back and forth, across and around we go, weaving threads of community, conversation and connection.
Currently in edit.
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
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
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.
Videos
Qualifications
Poh Lin received her Bachelor in Social Work from Curtin University of Technology in Western Australia and Masters with Honours in Narrative Therapy and Community Work from the University of Melbourne. Poh Lin is a member of the Australian Association of Social Workers and a teacher for the International teaching faculty of Dulwich Centre. Poh Lin is an honorary clinical fellow of the school of social work, University of Melbourne and tutor for the Masters course in Narrative Therapy and Community Work.
Poh Lin is a member of the International Advisory Committee of the Latin American Journal of Clinical Social Work.
Poh Lin provides narrative practice consultations and workshops for filmmakers and creatives to assist in project development, ethical explorations and disrupting the expected for people to unearth the possible. Poh Lin currently offers workshops at Kunsthochschule für Medien (Academy of Media Arts), Victorian College of the Arts, University of Melbourne, Dokomotive, Germany and more to be announced soon!
Poh Lin received her Bachelor in Social Work from Curtin University of Technology in Western Australia and Masters with Honours in Narrative Therapy and Community Work from the University of Melbourne. Poh Lin is a member of the Australian Association of Social Workers and a teacher for the International teaching faculty of Dulwich Centre. Poh Lin is an honorary clinical fellow of the school of social work, University of Melbourne and tutor for the Masters course in Narrative Therapy and Community Work.
Poh Lin is a member of the International Advisory Committee of the Latin American Journal of Clinical Social Work.
Poh Lin provides narrative practice consultations and workshops for filmmakers and creatives to assist in project development, ethical explorations and disrupting the expected for people to unearth the possible. Poh Lin currently offers workshops at Kunsthochschule für Medien (Academy of Media Arts), Victorian College of the Arts, University of Melbourne, Dokomotive, Germany and more to be announced soon!