About Us
For more than 50 years, Shadybrook has been opening minds and inspiring hearts. We serve the people of Northeastern Ohio by offering a safe forum for diverse ideas and dialogue. Through thought-provoking programs, we create opportunities for spiritual exploration and lifelong learning. Our inclusive, caring community fosters appreciation for the richness found in diversity.
Monthly Programs
Perhaps at the heart of Shadybrook’s activities are the inspiring and thought-provoking programs that we offer March through December as a public service to the local community. All programs are held at the beautiful East Shore Unitarian Universalist Church in Kirtland, just 5 miles from I-90. Fully handicapped accessible and located just 15 miles east [...]
Ways To Give
Your tax-deductible support is important to help fulfill Shadybrook’s mission. We are committed to making our services accessible to anyone seeking to enhance their life and realize their human potential, regardless of background or financial status. Our programs and scholarships are underwritten by the generous support of endowments and gifts. We ask you to put [...]
Celebrating A Half Century Of Service
Shadybrook, formerly known as The Laymen’s Retreat Project, became a non-profit organization in 1955. Inspired by the programs offered at Wainwright House in Rye, New York, the founders chose a 17-room turn of the century mansion in Kirtland, Ohio to house their vision for an interdenominational retreat center. In October 1957, Shadybrook House, once the summer home of the Arthur D. Baldwin family, had its dedication. The Shadybrook experience began well before the front gate, with the drive along secluded, country roads rich with foliage. Its woodland setting at the edge of the Holden Arboretum’s nut tree collection, contained an outdoor amphitheater and swimming pool, and provided spectacular views of Lake Erie. Shadybrook House was a spacious facility with a large living room, dining room, chapel, and overnight accommodations. Its library housed several hundred volumes on psychology, healing, philosophy and religion. For the next 25 years, the organization offered workshops,...
We Invite You To Join Us
Explore
Learn how to open gateways to expansive, energetic, dimensions and to communicate with the ever-present wisdom of the collective unconscious. Learn to work with and become aware of energy grids, and the telepathic information systems that govern us and our lives at an unconscious level. Awaken to the super powers that lay dormant within you. “I encourage us all to embrace our personal power, creative and individual gifts, boldly and proudly. Trust your journey. Step often and silently...
Awaken
The Awakening the Dreamer Symposium is a profound inquiry into a bold vision: to bring forth an environmentally sustainable, spiritually fulfilling and socially just human presence on Earth. Through a dynamic and interactive, multimedia experience with time for personal reflection, you will gain fresh insight into our world, meet like-minded individuals, find hope and inspiration, and leave clear about how you can help create a new future. If you have an open mind and the willingness to...
Celebrate
Celebrate the longest day of the year and welcome summer by giving thanks for the warmth of the sun that nourishes all life on our planet. The drum circle will include basic rhythms for all skill levels, split-group syncopation, and time for free-form jams around the fire as darkness settles in. Please join us for this spirited celebration of sun and peace as we raise the positive energy vibrations for everyone. Bring a vegetarian dish to share & serving utensil; lawn chairs; drums. ...
Dance
The Dances of Universal Peace embody the teachings at the heart of all spiritual traditions – love, compassion, oneness. By joining together in these simple, meditative, joyous multi-cultural circle dances, we have an opportunity to not only touch the spiritual essence within ourselves, but to recognize it in others as well. As we cultivate and embody the qualities of love, harmony and beauty, we send this energy out into the world. Since their beginning, the Dances of Universal Peace...
