Creating emotional competency in education and the workplace

Aboriginal health and community development

Ph.D. Education, University of British Columbia (2004)

Thesis: Making the Classroom a Healthy Place: The Development of Affective Competency in Aboriginal Pedagogy

Masters Degree in Education, National University, San Diego, California (1982)

Director of UBC Institute of Aboriginal Health

Former Coordinator of Indigenous Doctoral Program at UBC

Lee is the Co-author of The Sacred Tree–educational curriculum based on Aboriginal values.  He has published on Emotional Education in Academic Journals such as, Canadian Journal of Native Education, and AlterNative: A New Zealand International Journal of Indigenous Scholarship. 

Guest Editor of UBC Educational Leadership Journal, March 2007

Lee is a well loved ceremonial leader, traditional singer, and respected Elder who has helped many people on their healing journey

Contributor to Round Lake Native Healing Centre–clinical supervisor and a cultural resource

Lee developed a theory of holistic emotional education and health predicted from six principles of emotional competency arising out of his research

Keynote presenter at a number of international and national conferences:

• The World Physicians Conference
• The Vancouver Coastal Health Conference
• The Association of German Psychiatry Annual World Conference
• Success by Six Conference
• School District 78 Native Education and Aboriginal Services Pro-D Day
• Indigenous Adult and Higher Learning Association
• Vancouver Aboriginal Child and Family Services sharing Pathways to Cultural Knowledge Conference
• Emotional Education Conference
• Ontario Native Education Counseling Association Conference
• Camosun College Annual Fall Assembly
• White Buffalo Aboriginal Health Society: Aboriginal Early Childhood Development “Shaping our Futures”