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Bio-data of Lee James
Lee James, born in 1960 in Australia, holds degrees in Psychology (from Queensland University) and Acting (NIDA). He is a management trainer, spiritualist, trauma specialist and actor. He is currently connected to several UN missions and works in all these various fields of film, theatre, social service and disaster management through out a working year.
Lee has conducted stress management, mind management, time management and other courses in many organizations worldwide. He has been a speaker at various international workshops, seminars and has given lectures on variety of topics. His lectures and workshops are thought provoking and inspiring.
Over a span of 20 years, Lee James has researched intensively in the subject of relationship between Mind and Matter. He is an authority in the study of Thought Management and Spiritual Empowerment. He has the speciality of communicating effectively with people of all levels, and he has mastered the art of presenting complex issues in a simple, clear and logical manner.
Lee James is associated with the Brahma Kumaris, a socio-spiritual educational institution which has over 6500 branches in over 87 countries. He has been its international youth co-ordinator, trainer and a spiritual student. An admirer of Asian culture and its value systems, Lee has deeply studied spirituality and has been practicing Raja Yoga Meditation for over 20 years.
Lee James speaks on variety of topics, which include
Mind-Body-Spirit, Adapting to Change , Stress Free Environments, Least Effort, Greatest Result, WHolistic Health, Applications of Spirituality in management, Spiritual solutions for solving problems, Re-sourcing, Adjusting To Change - creatively capitalizing on crisis , Culture Shock - a 'wake-up' call for harmonising differences, Managing the Moment - dealing with the pressures and challenges,
Personal Empowerment - creation power within the work environment
Conflict Resolution and Negotiation - the power of the individual in resolving conflict.
Lee has only just returned from an international tour that included 18 countries over 4 continents and 56 cities, conducting more than 270 workshops and lectures in 15 weeks. These government and non governmental organizations include the Seville and Madrid Department for Education and Human Welfare, Honeywell, Crisis Management teams for local and national government in India, Denmark, UK, USA, Germany and Switzerland and for UNHCR and WHO. Prison Reform and human development in Barcelona and Madrid and field worker training in Chennai’s Law University.
Lee James is involved in the following activities
International Projects
Post-trauma counseling and training
Independent field advisor to government agencies (eg: education, youth affairs, emergency services) and non government organisations for Far East and South East Asia. Dealing with emergency support and training and counseling after social or natural disasters, specifically working with emergency crews and victims.
Notable missions include:
- September 11th 2001 – Post trauma at Ground Zero New York.
- Madrid Bombing – March 11th attack. Post trauma care and emergency response
report to the UN (WHO).
- Aum Shinrikyo crisis Tokyo - (rehabilitation of past cult members) and post
trauma for subway gas victims.
- Hiroshima bus jacking;
- Kobe earthquake 1995; Taiwan (1999).
- Bam (Iran) earthquake 2003/2004.
- land mine rehabilitation (Cambodia).
- drug rehabilitation (all S.E. Asia including Thailand);
- suicide intervention and prevention (Japan, Korea);
- time/resource/stress management (China, Hong Kong, Malaysia);
- hospice support (inc. Philippines);
- post traumatic stress and social rehabilitation – training and support for social
workers in East Timor 1999, 2000, 2001) - -
- International AIDS Conferences (1997, 1999,2001);
- hostage negotiation inc. two major crisis areas in S.E. Asia.
- War Children (those who’ve grown up and lost relatives in war) including the Palestinian Territories and Israel, East Timor, Angola and Bosnia.
Social Work
Life Support Counseling
This program, begun in Japan in 1998, offers social workers, doctors and nursing staff the opportunity to expand their perceptions (“Viewpoints”) and fields of learning in all aspects of life support, especially that of hospice care (palliative care). Participants are offered the chance to broaden their views of life and death, and also receive practical methods for self-sustenance, including time and personal energy management.
Lee has lectured in many universities and university hospitals on numerous topics from post-operative care to the power of thought for a ‘life carer’.
Referred Counselor
Lee has counseled patients referred by doctors and hospital staff at four Tokyo hospitals, working with children with terminal illnesses, cancer patients and staff in palliative care, AIDS and post-operative care. He continues private sessions for patients (OCD).
Lectures
• ASEAN Meetings: 1989, 1990,1992
• International AIDS Conference: 1993, 1994,1996
• World Health Organization Annual Meet: 1990 - 92, 1993, 1995.
• Various universities (inc. Seoul, Delhi, Oxford, Sydney, Tokyo). Topics include mental care, post-operative support, counseling techniques, addictions, trauma, grief, death and dying and social crisis management and terrorism.
• Hospitals worldwide, inc. emergency and police units, indigenous mental health.
Cross-cultural Training Workshops
• JALCOS: JAL Academy - 1990- 2003
• Mitsubishi: Overseas manager training - 1994-1995
• Japan Medical Association: In response to Kobe earthquake, January-April
1995 and follow up rehabilitation and counseling work.
• Tokyo Metro Government: Aids Counseling Centres, 1993-1995
• World Cup 2002 (Tokyo) – assisting in intercultural counseling (Police Dept.).
Movement Workshops
Japan Spastic Association: Developing self-expression through the harmony dance (leadership and the power of co-operation), 1993-1996. Lee has created a wide variety of workshops - which include expression, relaxation and focusing techniques - to meet the needs of a wide cross-section of society including youth, prison workers, medical support staff and terminally ill patients.
Current and On-going Projects 2004.
Volunteer Counselor
Half of Lee’s counseling hours are part of a United Nations volunteer counselors program. Love of Listening seminars have continued since 2000. People who have benefited include relatives of victims of the September 11th 2001 terrorist attack and the Bali bombing. This program empowers victims and those closest to the crisis to found support groups within their own villages and organizations.
Projects in Japan and Australia
A series of workshops for educators, helping them in conflict resolution in the classroom, values education, and self-sustenance and support groups (Teachers Union, Tokyo) including the Living Values initative with the Brahma Kumaris.
Youth Retreats : The Hero Within and Living Deliberately
Retreats on a local, national and international level to facilitate self-empowerment, leadership skills and ‘living values’ in youths (15 – 25 years). In 2000, Lee co-operated in writing an advisory paper for the Japanese Government on bullying (Ijime) in schools. His negotiation skills include domestic violence.
Therapeutic Theatre
The Light Company and the newly formed Y5K’s philosophy includes various Mind, Body, Spirit methodologies, including meditation, chi gong, intoning and chanting. These are used with the elderly, AIDS patients, school children and in dealing with social crisis.
Performances
Lee James has given performances for films, televisions, radio and theatre. It is his interest in dance that led to his development of therapeutic movement techniques. He studied various movement therapies while 13 years in Japan.
Lee was also responsible for the creation of Peaceforce, a slow-motion mime performed on the streets to give its audience a rare experience of peace in what is usually a stressful urban environment. It involved long stints in a totally motionless state (eg: walking in slow motion for 12 hours a day from one end of Manhattan Island to the other as a memorial of peace to the world after September 11th. This event took four days in all). These events have also been used in prisons and hospices to provoke inter-dialogue.
Theatre Work
The Light Company
Lee is the Artistic Director of The Light Company - an international troupe of eight different cultural backgrounds performing in numerous languages. The company has given performances to support UN projects, including the International Year for the Culture of Peace.
Lee has conducted numerous workshops for various international theatre companies including Peter Brook in Paris and The Royal Shakespeare Company in the UK. For the past 6 years, his therapeutic work involved performances with victims of AIDS, war children, terminal patients and most recently, the families of those killed at the World Trade Centre in New York.
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