The Heartwork Institute

Conquering Anxiety repeat date: Saturday November 8, 2025, 1:00-3:00pm Eastern Time.

Conquering Anxiety repeat date: Saturday November 8, 2025, 1:00-3:00pm Eastern Time.


Want to ask more about our current offerings? Email us at awakentheheart@gmail.com

What is Heartwork?

Many people spend years in therapy and still feel stuck. They manage some of their symptoms, but they can’t quite reach the root of their pain. Heartwork leads you there on a gentle, contemplative path inward. Together we uncover the identities you created to survive your childhood pain, and the stories you built around them that you’ve come to believe are real. You’ve held onto them not out of weakness, but out of familiarity—after all, they’ve quietly been shaping how you understand yourself and the world.

Heartwork draws from psychodynamic work, decades of Zen and Diamond Approach inquiry, energy awareness, and deep feeling therapy to help you recognize that these self-denigrating beliefs have been what keep you recreating your suffering. And when you finally see through these old, limiting stories, they lose their power. You let go of your attachment to who you always thought you were and instead reconnect with who you truly are—clear, grounded, and free. Heartwork isn’t about fixing you; it’s about leading you back to your own light.” 

– Heartwork’s founder, Dale Goldstein


The Heartwork Institute is a spiritual center located in Rochester, NY. Dale Goldstein, MSW, Heartwork’s creator and Spiritual Teacher, has been actively exploring, since 1966, the uses of meditation, inquiry, and other spiritual tools to facilitate the deep healing of individuals, groups, and organizations.

Experience Heartwork at a workshop, retreat, or training
These transformational events offer an opportunity to learn and internalize powerful tools in a supported setting and offer the possibility of personal breakthroughs and life-changing experiences.
Email the Heartwork Institute at awakentheheart@gmail.com for more information.

Experience Heartwork individually
In-person, Zoom, Skype, Face Time, and phone Heartwork sessions are available.
Book session through the links above or email Dale directly at dalegee22@gmail.com.


Heartwork Institute: 882 Titus Avenue – Rochester, NY  14617

awakentheheart@gmail.com    585-739-8884 – fax:315-221-9584

Dale Goldstein: dalegee22@gmail.com    585-739-8884