Author, Speaker, Coach Barbara Sher passed away on May 10, 2020.
Read Barbara’s obituary here. Barbara’s Club and all its programs continue in the hands of those she trained.
Registration for Hanging Out is open now!
If you have not yet experienced the jewel in the crown of Barbara’s Club, please check out Hanging Out. Enjoy a full year of treats every Monday, Wednesday, and Friday. To make sure everyone gets to know plenty of other people, we now open registration only twice a year. Full year registration is open right now through April 21, and monthly registration opens on April 16th. We will begin hanging out together on Monday, April 22nd. Don’t miss this! Prior members still have access to all messages they paid for. Links are on the Hanging Out page when you are logged in.
The Dare to Soar Telesummit Recordings
All of the mini-workshops at our February 10, 2024 Telesummit were recorded, and you can listen to all of them for free.
Survival Guide for Dreamers
If you’ve got a dream (or wish you had one) it’s time to stop being stuck. Let us send you 365 days of Barbara’s help with procrastination and Resistance. This new program is designed to give you exactly what you need to finally get moving. Here’s how it works: One day at a time for a full year Barbara will be with you via a brief email, helping you get past the procrastination and resistance that have kept you from achieving your dreams. That’s it. No exercises to do. No discussions to keep up with. Just an email a day to encourage you and teach you how to deal with whatever prevents you from going after your dreams. Begin your Survival Guide year at any time.
Barbara Sher Book Clubs
Our next book club will read Refuse to Choose from July 25 through November 13th. Registration will open on July 11, 2024. I hope you’ll join us. Read more about it here. Members of ongoing book clubs should contact webmaster@barbarasclub.com for assistance. Even after our official reading period has ended, members are still welcome to add comments for the full year. You won’t be alone in finishing the exercises.
Thinking Through Refuse to Choose: 101 things every Scanner should know
Are you a Scanner? These are people with a different (and often misunderstood) type of mindset: they’re curious and smart, always happiest when learning something new. But no matter how promising a path may appear, Scanners can never give up their love of exploring. And therein lies the problem: despite their passionate engagement with the world and their love of life, Scanners are unable to decide on one path, and they’re often afraid that there’s something horribly wrong with them. It’s usually forgotten that such people were once admired for their wide range of knowledge, even called Renaissance thinkers. Now they’re often labeled as immature, lazy dilettantes by a culture that prizes specialization above all else. I wrote this 99-cent Kindle book (with two great helpers) to highlight the top 101 takeaways from my book, Refuse to Choose! Use All of Your Interests, Passions, and Hobbies to Create the Life and Career of Your Dreams. Use it as an introduction or as a reminder after you read the book. Purchase this Kindle book here.
WriteSpeak Online: Write Your Own Success Story
WriteSpeak Online registration is closed now until February 8, 2025. This is Barbara’s entire WriteSpeak program—the 6-hour, highly interactive Teleworkshop plus a new 48-week online version of the material that was in her WriteSpeak retreat and telecourse, all for a fraction of the earlier price. The course is now taught by Patty Newbold, who taught it with Barbara since 2007, and Patrice Jenkins, a member of that first group and the first WriteSpeaker to be published, who taught it with Barbara and Patty in 2020 and with Patty since then. We also offer optional monthly group coaching and one-on-one coaching. Those who have already completed the required Teleworkshop and want to add the 48-Week Course should write to webmaster@barbarasclub.com.
For more information, check out barbarasclub.com/writespeak or listen to this Telesummit recording: How to Become a Writer and Speaker by Next February. New member registration will open again on February 8, 2025. Come find your message and your audience and begin your writing and speaking career.
Be sure you are on the mailing list to hear about new programs the moment they are available. The mailing list sign-up is under Barbara’s photo at the bottom of this page.
Hi Patty,
is there going to be a Book Club on “It’s only too late…”. I can’t wait for that!
Please do let me know – Thanks!
Just spotted this, Luisa. The answer is yes, possibly as early as January 2015.
Great – all excited – waiting to hear about it
I’ve been “Out of the Loop” for a long time with major health problems ranging from May until now, but things are improving, and I am back at it again. It is good to be back at it. I can hardly wait for the Write/Speak program! How exciting could that be? And anything else.
Yes, I certainly do want to be a coach, and I consider it to be part of my purpose. But I know I can’t come to Germany at this time. There will be other ways. My experience has taught me that when desire is strong enough, means appear.
Get better soon, Mary Ann – and be a great coach – as I know you will be!
Hi Barbara,
Thanks for the email.
I did look at the success teams in my area and unfortunately they are in the way out suburbs, non in the city. I would be interested in success teams by phone.
I would be interested in working with a coach.
Thanks,
Shuva
Yes, Success Teams by phone sound good to me too.
I’m interested in coaching and a success team.
Hi, Shuva! Have you checked the list of Success Team Leaders at http://shersuccessteams.com/findateam.htm to see if one is near you? If not, reply here, and I will send you information about Success Teams by Phone.
Barbara has trained a large number of coaches. We are in the process of gathering their contact information to list them on her website. For now, Google will lead you to some of them if you search for Barbara Sher coach. She will also be looking for people who want to work with the new group of coaches who start their training next month. They will still be learning, but you can get coached for free at first and for a small fee later in the ten-month course. The request for people to coach for practice will appear in Barbara’s newsletter. If you’re not on that list, the sign-up is below her photo on every page of Barbara’s Club.
If i can’t get to the Hamburg sessions, is there any other way to train as a coach?
What about being a Barbara-Sher-Success-Team Leader?
For people from the US area it is much easier to get access to this programme than for German people.
I forgot where you come from, dear fellow book club member 🙂
thanks for the suggestion, i will be reflecting on that after the course ( I am from Melbourne, Australia)
I WOULD LIKE INFO ON THE SCANNERS BOOK SESSIONS. HOW DOES IT WORK.
THANK YOU
MARIETTA
We will read the book Refuse to Choose and do the exercises together over 16 weeks. Dates to be announced very soon.
Are you doing this at this time already? Maybe so. I’ve been out of the loop a long time, but am getting back in. It is presently October 22.
So glad you’re back in the loop, Mary Ann. We’ll be finishing up Part 1 of Refuse to Choose this coming week. But I promise more book clubs in 2015. I am having such a good time with them.
I’ve signed up but been away and need a reminder for login link and my password.
Thanks!
Judy Gintz
I would love to join one of your courses. I’m 62 and have just found you! I am training to be a life coach and would love to incorporate your philosophies into my coaching. I’m in the middle of reading Wishcraft and I feel like I’ve come home. I have already introduced my daughter to you and have hopes that you can help her to find her passion. Thank you so very much.
Maybe you can join the programme for Success Team Leaders? For this you don’t have to travel to Germany (where the next Coaching Training takes place in November 2014). I’m pretty sure Patty Newbold knows all about this!
Hello there, I don’t get any comments from the book-club since last week and I don’t find access to the book-club-page. What went wrong? Is it, because I didn’t publish any of my experiences yet?
I don’t know, where to put my comments on the first two chapters… And I’d like to get “reminder”-mails…
Thank you for keeping me connected!
Hi, Annika. I have just sent you an email with the answers to your questions.
Hi Patty- just found out about the book club. SO sad to have missed joining in. Am sure it’s fantastic! Please do keep me posted on any other upcoming events. Thx much-
So sorry you missed it, Catherine. I hope we’ll be able to repeat it next year. Be sure you are on Barbara’s mailing list, because such things are always announced in advance — a few times, as are special offers like the time she sent free autographed copies of her books to new Hanging Out members. The sign-up form is below Barbara’s smiling face at the bottom of each Barbara’s Club page.