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What is this research project?

As part of my postgraduate studies at the Montreal Institute of Core Energetics, I am conducting a research project exploring how people experience the connection (or disconnection) between “cleaning up” (the psychological process of shadow work and emotional integration) and “waking up” (the spiritual process of awakening to deeper states of consciousness).

What is Waking Up? What is Cleaning Up? Why Do We Need Both?

Participants will be invited to take part in a series of 5 private Core Energetics sessions (with the option to continue afterwards, if desired). These sessions will be offered in-person or on zoom, at a ****reduced rate ($50/session) in exchange for your participation in this research. Research will take place between November 2025- March 2026. What is Core Energetics?

As part of the project, you will be asked to:

• Fill out a written intake form and participate in a 20-minute pre-interview
• Engage in 5 Core Energetics sessions, either weekly or biweekly. Each session will feature a ‣, where participants will be invited to explore their reactions and any resistance they might be feeling. Following this, if time permits, participants will be invited to explore whatever personal issues are presenting themselves in their lives. The 5th session will be an integration session where we look back and assess what we’ve done until that point.
• Share reflections after the process through feedback and questionnaires.

Your identity and any personal information will be kept confidential unless you provide explicit consent otherwise.  Information collected will be used solely for research purposes, including analysis, academic writing, and presentations. Results may be shared in aggregated form but will never identify you personally.

This is not a therapeutic treatment program or a spiritual teaching. Rather, it's a guided inquiry into how somatic and spiritual processes unfold within you, supported by the tools of Core Energetics and held within a research framework.

Is it for me?

Are you someone who:

• has a spiritual practice, but feels that spirituality alone hasn’t been enough to uproot entrenched patterns in your life that cause you suffering?
• has experience with somatic practices, and may have attained a feeling of therapeutic wholeness, but you find you lack a deeper spiritual unfulfillment?
• is interested in discovering your deepest qualities so you can offer yourself more fully to the world?
• is generally curious to know more about themselves?
• has heard about Core Energetics and is interested in knowing more about it?

If so, then this research project is for you!

Daniel’s Approach

**My basic philosophy and orientation for this project can be summed up this way:

**You are already whole. Would you like to feel through everything that tells you you’re not?

I believe that each one of us is already intrinsically pure, awakened, enlightened, divine (choose your metaphor!). Yet, it’s really hard for most of us to experience ourselves that way. And when we try to see this in others…let’s just say that can be a challenge as well.

I have practiced meditation for 20 years, and while this path has brought me incalculable blessings, it alone wasn’t enough to uproot some very deep suffering. After the birth of my second child, I struggled with severe insomnia that I couldn’t meditate my way out of. It was then that I discovered Core Energetics. Once I started feeling and moving my anger, my sleep issues went away. In the 8 years of intense study since then, I have made friends with my fear, sadness, and joy, and seen how feeling these fully opened up amazing new vistas in my persona, professional, and spiritual life.

If you have specific questions, please contact me: dgoldsmith108@gmail.com

My guiding questions for this project:

How does Core Energetics support or challenge the goals of contemplative spiritual traditions?