Consultancy

I specialise in collaborative design, research and strategy that supports healthy land, healthy communities and healthy futures in the Northern Territory and beyond. My practice is underpinned by principles of hospitality, care, and a commitment to methods and practices that increase access and depth of engagement in learning, planning and decision making.

Kelly Lee is one of those rare people who can weave a thread between worlds – bridging cultures and knowledge systems – with impressive passion, creativity and intellect. She takes a professional approach delivering work with quality and on time – all while having such a lovely energy to engage with. Her skills to understand and communicate through literature are extraordinary, as are her abilities to work across academic and grassroots worlds.

Prof. Shez Cairney

CEO, The Interplay Project

Pillars of Practice

Participatory Action Research: Learning together through cycles of planning, acting and doing.

Asset Based Community Development: Community led, strengths based practices of ‘using what we have to get what we need’.

Collective Narrative Therapy and Resilience Narratives: Telling stories in ways that acknowledge structural disadvantage and uplift community responses of resilience and resistance.

Kelly- Lee has a glitteringly creative mind, whilst also bringing discipline and rigour to
all her work. She is a joy to work with, possessing a rare combination of skills and experience overlapping the areas of creativity, community development and academia.  She is honest and articulate when collaborating, working confidently and effectively with a range of clients to deliver projects on time.

Christopher Brocklebank

Director, iTalk Studios

Kelly Lee is a beautiful and grounded facilitator. She has special intuition and skill in holding space for raw and difficult conversations that affect us all in difficult and personal ways. I truly feel richer for sharing space in her summer school and am in awe of her ability to facilitate tender conversations about ecological and social justice.

Lou Stanley

Workshop Participant

Facilitation and Training

I am passionate about creating opportunities for people to think differently about themselves, the world around them, and their place within it. Through careful facilitation attuned to the diversity of backgrounds and experiences in the room, I support people to come together to learn about what is important to them, and how they might work together towards shared goals.

Co Design and Service Design

 I support the collaborative design of programs, resources, training and evaluation frameworks for the community and creative sectors. I build links between local context and broader trends in theory, practice and policy that expose innovative and sustainable ways of working with existing skills, networks, knowledge and opportunities.

 

Kelly Lee is a compassionate professional  with great skills in strategy and facilitation. She uses both her intellect and years of experience across the arts and public health sectors to listen deeply and get the best outcomes for all involved.

Mary Jane Reynolds

Artistic Director, Red Hot Arts Central Australia

Research Services

Desktop and Community Based Research: With both community and academic research experience and training, I offer a range of research services including literature review, environmental scan and community based research. I specialise in participatory, narrative and creative research methods that support organisations to learn from and with community.