Laurie Slade
Laurie Slade is a member of the Guild of Psychotherapists, the Confederation for Analytical Psychology, the Institute for Psychedelic Therapy, and the International Association for the Study of Dreams. He practiced for 30 years as a psychoanalytic psychotherapist, and continues to act as a creative consultant and social dreaming practitioner. He has been involved in social dreaming since 2001, hosting sessions in a variety of settings, in the UK and internationally, including open-access events for Tate Modern (2017) and the Barbican (2019). His published papers include: Social Dreaming for a Queer Culture (Self & Society – 2005), Image to Gesture – Social Dreaming with Student Theatre Directors (in The Creativity of Social Dreaming – Karnac – 2010), and Renewing the Land – the Dreaming Mind in Community (in Social Dreaming – Philosophy, Practice, Theory and Research -Routledge – 2019).
Talks On Demand
Past and Current Confer Events
Working with High Intensity States of Consciousness
Saturday 15 December 2018
Desire in the Consulting Room
Saturday 4 November 2017
Gut-Brain-Heart-Brain
Saturday 1 July 2017
The Landscapes of Grief
Saturday 6 May 2017
Where are the Boundaries of Self and Other?
Saturday 14 May 2016
Shamanic Approaches in Modern Psychotherapy
Saturday 9 April 2016
Love Sick
Saturday 11 March 2017
Working with the Dreaming Mind
Saturday 30 January 2016
The Intuitive Psychotherapist
Friday 29 and Saturday 30 June 2012 – London
The Practitioner’s Body
Friday 4 & Saturday 5 April 2008
Spiritual Narratives and Psychological Therapies II
Friday 30 & Saturday 31 May 2008
Landscapes of The Mind
Friday 25 – Sunday 27 September 2009
The Big Idea
Friday 5 (evening) and Saturday 6 March 2010