Laurie Slade is a UKCP registered analytical psychotherapist, in private practice in West London. He is a member of the Guild of Psychotherapists, the Confederation for Analytical Psychology, and the International Neuropsychoanalysis Association. He has a long-standing interest in working with dreams, and has led workshops in different contexts. He has been actively involved in social dreaming since 2001, hosting sessions in a variety of settings, in the UK and internationally, and regularly at Confer events. Image to Gesture, his account of a 4-year project using social dreaming to facilitate creativity for student theatre directors, was published in W. Gordon Lawrence's The Creativity of Social Dreaming (2010).