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Our multi-storied bodies practices Monday group
July 3, 2025
8:00 am - 5:00 pm
Zoom (Link TBA) What happens when we shift from viewing our bodies as a single entity to experiencing them as a community of diverse members, each with their own experience, position, and story?
Our Multi-Storied Bodies Practices Tueday Group
With Poh Lin Lee
Group 2: Tuesdays 4 pm – 5.30 pm EDT
24th June, 1st, 8th, 15th, 22nd & 29th
8 places, two places at a reduced fee. Payment in two parts is available on request
Beginning in late June, we are delighted to offer a welcome six-week consultation group for our multi-storied bodies’ ideas and practices. If you are interested in experiencing the overall taste of this co-research approach, this is the group for you!
What happens when we shift from viewing our bodies as a single entity to experiencing them as a community of diverse members, each with their own experience, position, and story? This consultation group is for folx interested in centering post-structural, narrative practices, intersectional feminisms, and community ideas in accompanying individuals, couples, families, and communities in co-research (creative, therapeutic or research). By co-research, we mean unpacking lived experience in non-extractive ways, guided by ethical curiosity.
In the previous consultation groups we have had a diverse mix of practices including dance movement, peer support, film making, community work, political movement and various therapeutic forms. Refusing to adhere to singular realms of practice (i.e. clinical, therapeutic, artistic, creative, academic, political etc) has contributed to a vibrant community practice.
We will meet 6 times weekly for 90 minutes, and in each session, we will start with a guided exercise around the theme of the week and then unpack in group discussion. The guided exercise is experiential and done within the collective space. You can try it for yourself either through writing, drawing, or drifting with the invitations and prompts. In the unpacking part of the session, you may wish to relate this to your experience, curiosity for the process itself, or in relation to others that you are accompanying in your practice.
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Week 1: Welcome & key ideas
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Week 2: How is value assigned? Unpacking binaries and hierarchies
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Week 3: Spending time with absence, exclusion and unlikely acts of care
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Week 4: Who is included? Spending time with more-than-human figures
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Week 5: Crafting our questions with who?
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Week 6: Wide open (to be determined by the group’s curiosity!)
If you are interested in attending you might like to check these resources…
- This recent article, published online with Murmurations: Journal of Transformative Systemic Practice, is available online and open access https://murmurations.cloud/
index.php/pub/article/view/308 - Lee, Poh Lin & Rose, Helena (2025). Our multi-storied bodies: in practitioner-centred conversations.Murmurations: Journal of Transformative Systemic Practice, 8(1), 89-101. https://doi.org/10.28963/8.1.
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Other writings including our multi-storied bodies:
- Wang, Xiaolu & Lee, Poh Lin (2024). Chapter: Fragments contain worlds: encounters between bodies. In Decolonizing Bodies. London: Bloomsbury Press
- Lee, P.L. (2023) Our bodies as multi-storied communities: ethics & practices. Journal of Systemic Therapies.
Previous Re-Authoring Teaching Events:
Fee: $350 USD, with two spaces at a reduced $250 rate.
Introducing Poh
Poh Lin Lee is a Chinese Malaysian Australian woman who has come 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).
Venue: Zoom (Link TBA)
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