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Weekend of Wishes Cleveland 2023
Creating success stories Barbara Sher style
“Dreams are important, and you need someone in your life who cares about yours.”
– Barbara Sher
Beautiful downtown Cleveland Ohio! Cleveland is home to many exciting museums, restaurants to make most foodies jealous, and curious adventures to inspire Scanners. And we will be right in the middle of it all, at the Crowne Plaza Cleveland at Playhouse Square, complete with a discount for you on rooms there ($175 plus Cleveland’s 17.5% combined hotel taxes, available Thursday through Monday nights).
April 28-30, 2023, Friday evening through midday Sunday
Make this your year to thrive, not just survive.
Sign up below as soon as possible! Check out all of the wonderful museums, food, lodging and fun in Cleveland and picture yourself there. Barbara called this type of workshop a Big Cheap Weekend because you register for the workshop and then you get to choose your own lodging and food based on your preferences.
Registration closes when we fill the venue or
at 5pm NY time on April 15th, whichever comes first.
Keep reading or listen to Tammy explain it all at our February 2023 Dare to Soar Telesummit
You, of course! Barbara said it best,
“You can be sloppy, sleepy, in the middle of a week-long self-pity party, stuffing yourself with ‘whine and cheese,’ overweight and under-groomed, or you can be scolding your lazy self like a fire and brimstone preacher—and you can still have your dream come true. All you need is a little help from your friends.”
– Barbara Sher
Barbara was known as the “resistance whisperer,” and she helped us realize that “The dreams you really care about are the scariest.”
No one can fill Barbara’s shoes and we would not even try!
Barbara knew she would not live forever, and she worked with a team to carry out her legacy and create pathways for individuals just like you to share your unique gifts with the world! Your facilitator for Weekend of Wishes, Tammy Garver, resonated with Barbara on a deep level as a single mother of two sons struggling financially and looking for a way to share her gifts with the world AND make ends meet despite adverse childhood experiences, resistance and procrastination.
In 2006 Tammy used Barbara’s idea of nailing up a sign for a workshop to earn money! Her goal was to travel to Greece to learn from Barbara at the first Scanner workshop in Corfu, even though she had no money to do so and had never traveled outside the US. Barbara’s techniques worked and Tammy joined Barbara in Corfu Greece and then participated in WriteSpeak and all of Barbara’s Book Clubs. She read every book Barbara wrote.
If she would not have said Yes to the first workshop, Tammy would not be part of the Barbara Sher team today! Tammy ‘walks the talk,’ and when she visited with Barbara shortly before Barbara’s passing, Barbara told Tammy that she simply must continue to do workshops. Barbara teased Tammy about “getting famous” and continuing the work, inspiring others to see for themselves that this works, so they will continue the work in their way with their unique gifts and dreams.
A responsive and alive presenter with many years of experience being immersed in Barbara Sher’s methods is what Barbara had in mind for continuing live workshops, but the heart of the workshops is YOU. It won’t be the same without you.
The schedule will include free time for you to explore, find amazing food and fun, and enjoy your accommodations at your chosen hotel or lodging. The schedule (in Barbara fashion) will loosely resemble the following:
Saturday — morning session, time for lunch with people you have met or quiet time on your own, afternoon session
Sunday — morning session and wrap-up
Of course the sessions will include Barbara’s iconic What Color Am I, Good Gossip, the Power of Negative Thinking and an Idea Party.
We won’t leave you hanging after this weekend workshop is complete. We’ll give you info on Success Teams. We’ll get you on our mailing list for future events and book clubs. And you might want to join Hanging Out before you come. A new group begins hanging out together, enjoying Barbara’s brain-nudging messages, on the Monday before we get together.
“Support is what makes the difference between success and failure: not your attitude, your mantra, or your toothpaste; just lots of help.”
– Barbara Sher
If you did not have what Barbara referred to as a “winning environment” growing up, joining our workshops can support you in creating your own winning environment! You are not alone.
None of these links are affiliated, preferred, or endorsed by Barbara Sher Online LLC. We list them as a starting point for your exploration as you create your perfect live-a-life-you-love weekend.
Getting to Cleveland
Find your travel options at rome2rio.com
Visiting Cleveland
Cleveland sites to visit to learn more about this world class location.
theclevelandarcade.com The first indoor shopping center in America, opened in May of 1890! It’s an Ohio landmark.
thisiscleveland.com Lots to do right in town.
onlyinyourstate.com/ohio/cleveland/free-things-to-do-cle Keeping your budget low? These 28 options are all free.
hotels.com – booking.com – airbnb.com
If the Crowne Plaza Cleveland at Playhouse Square, our workshop venue ($175 plus taxes if you reserve in March), does not suit you, there are many other hotels, vrbo’s, airbnb’s, hostels, and creative lodging in Cleveland. (Too many to list!) A Google search will also offer many luxury hotels, budget hotels, downtown hotels, and more ideas than you probably can process, lol.
What else is happening in Cleveland that weekend?
Friday before registration:
The Rock & Roll Hall of Fame, the Cleveland Botanical Garden, the Cleveland Museum of Art, the Museum of Contemporary Art Cleveland, and the Cleveland Museum of Natural History are all open until 5pm. So is the A Christmas Story House Museum and the Bumpus House next door. Edgewater Beach Park on the Lake Erie waterfront is open until 10pm.
Friday after registration:
Ain’t Misbehaving at the Hanna Theater at 7:30pm.
The Cleveland Symphony Orchestra debuts a new Wynton Marsalis concerto along with Martinu’s Second Symphony and Dvorak’s Symphony No. 9 (“From the New World”) at Severance Hall at 7:30pm.
Comedian Aaron Kleiber will be at Hilarities Cleveland at 7:00pm.
Tina – The Tina Turner Musical is at the Connor Palace Theater at 7:30pm.
Saturday evening:
Skinny Puppy is at the House of Blues at 7pm.
The Cleveland Symphony Orchestra debuts a new Wynton Marsalis concerto along with Martinu’s Second Symphony and Dvorak’s Symphony No. 9 (“From the New World”) at Severance Hall at 8pm.
Comedian Aaron Kleiber will be at Hilarities Cleveland at 9:45pm.
Charming Disaster is at the Wizbang Theater at 8pm.
Tina – The Tina Turner Musical is at the Connor Palace Theater at 7:30pm.
Sunday afternoon:
The Rock & Roll Hall of Fame, The Cleveland Botanical Garden, the Cleveland Museum of Art, the Museum of Contemporary Art Cleveland, and the Cleveland Museum of Natural History are all open until 5pm. So is the A Christmas Story House Museum and the Bumpus House next door. Edgewater Beach Park on the Lake Erie waterfront is open until 10pm.
The price for the weekend workshop was just $399. Registration is closed now.
“If you’ve got a dream (or wish you had one) it’s time to stop being stuck. This new program is designed to give you exactly what you need to finally get moving.”
– Barbara Sher
Things you really must read before you register, because you are agreeing to them by registering.
- Participants must pay for the full registration to register. To keep the event affordable, no reserved spaces or payment plans are available.
- Registration includes the workshop sessions only. Travel, lodging, and food are not included.
- Refunds are generously offered through April 14, with a $100 service charge. There will be no refunds after 5 pm NY time on April 14 for any reason. In the unlikely event that Barbara Sher Online LLC must cancel due to insufficient registrations by February 28 or inability to get to or use the venue that weekend for any reason, everyone will receive a full refund.
- For the safety of everyone, participants who are coughing, sneezing or running a fever must wear a surgical, N-95 or KN-95 mask while in the workshop space.
- For everyone’s safety, if a participant is visibly intoxicated or under the influence of illicit drugs at any time, they will be asked to leave the workshop space until sober. (Yes, we do have to actually say so 🙂 ).
- Any participant who engages in ad hominem attacks on anyone involved with the workshop will be removed for a period of at least 60 minutes for self-regulation.
- Participants who engage in criminal activity during the workshop or while out with other registered participants, are no longer permitted in the workshop space.
- Participants are not obligated to participate in any of the exercises. Each person’s experience will naturally be unique, and we cannot and do not make any promise or claim about what participants will achieve toward their wish(es) during or after the workshop.
Barbara Sher and audio engineer Uncle Roy Yokelson at the 2010 Big Cheap Weekend: Patty Newbold
A thoughtful Barbara Sher at the Corfu Scanners Retreat: Tammy Garver
Tammy Garver celebrating: a family member
Ballet: Photo by Kazuo ota on Unsplash
Beach: Photo by Matthew Brodeur on Unsplash
Open shop: Photo by Mike Petrucci on Unsplash
Cupcake: Photo by Meritt Thomas on Unsplash
Arcade: Photo by Ron Dauphin on Unsplash