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 20th. We will begin hanging out together on Monday, April 21st. 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.
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 I Could Do Anything If I Only Knew What It Was from July 24th through November 12th of 2025. Registration will open on July 10, 2025. 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. And please visit this page to see what other book clubs we have scheduled.
The Dare to Soar Telesummit Recordings
All of the mini-workshops at our February 8, 2025 Telesummit were recorded, and you can listen to all of them for free.
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 September 13, 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 Kandy Sartori, a WriteSpeak grad, and Patrice Jenkins, a member of the first WriteSpeak group in 2007 and the first WriteSpeaker to be published, who first taught the Teleworkshop in 2020 with Barbara. Monthly group coaching is included and one-on-one coaching is available. 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 September 13, 2025. Come find your message and your audience and begin your writing and speaking career.
Find a Success Team or Become a Sher Success Teams Leader
Isolation is the dream killer. Find your people in a Sher Success Team and learn how to identify and achieve your dreams in Barbara’s 8-Week Workshop for new teams. We always need more Sher Success Teams leaders, so if helping others go after their dreams is your dream, there’s a business in a kit waiting for you, a Leader’s Kit with everything you need to run that same workshop.
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.
I want to get back to the Refuse to Choose book club before it ends. How do I do that? My husband was diagnosed with cancer right after I signed up. I thought I could use the book club as a diversion but things got busy. And stressful. He’s doing better now and I want to pick up what I can. Thanks!
Very happy to hear that your husband is better.
A big, big hug
Ditto what Luisa said, and I am sending you an email, Vicki B.
Am I in the right place at the right time? Or the wrong place at the right time? Or the wrong place at the wrong time? Or What?? I can’t find the exercises to July 9th’s assignments for Chapter 5, and this isn’t it! According to my calendar, we are supposed to be up through the middle of it by this time, stopping before exercise 4, and that was July 9. In a few days, it will be time for the rest of Chapter 5, and I can’t access the beginning exercises for this chapter! Help!!
I am working my way through “I could Do Anything…” and I’m stuck, but don’t know how to get unstuck or where to go for help. Is there an online group/course for this?
Hi Abby,
There’s Hanging Out, Message boards, Book Clubs and more.
I highly recommend you sign up for the book clubs Patty Newbold offers. Right now It’s Only Too Late if You Don’t Start Now is in progress http://barbarasclub.com/bookclub/iotl2015/ I participated in “I Could Do Anything” book club in 2014. http://barbarasclub.com/bookclub/icda2014/
She might offer it again. webmaster@barbarasclub.com
Abby, I am expecting to announce another I Could Do Anything book club later this month.
Abby, I hope you will join us for the book club:
http://barbarasclub.com/bookclub/icda2015/
Registration closes on June 10th.
I want to register a friend for the same course I am in so that we can be in the same book group. How do I do that?
Register yourself twice, then send an email to webmaster@barbarasclub.com with your friend’s name and email address.
Interested in hangouts and everything you do. I have been a fan since your first book. So glad you are taking care of yourself and still being creative with your gifts.
Gailann Bruen
Re-invent NOW!
Great timing, Gailann. We have two new book clubs taking registrations now, one in English, the other in German, both for the book whose English title is It’s Only Too Late If You Don’t Start Now. http://barbarasclub.com/bookclub/iotl2015/
Thank you, Gailann! Glad you’re here!
I would like to be notified of upcoming classes. Your work has been a liberating force in my life!. I’m such a Scanner and a fan of yours.
Thank you, Bonita. It means a lot to me to read your words. I hope you’re on my mailing list – scroll to the bottom and get your email address there – because I often do short-notice telephone conference calls on different subjects and I send announcements. I’d like to hear your voice and say hello.
Hope 2015 brings only good things. I would like to get more information about courses being offered
thx
Thank you, Maureen. Announcements will go out soon about a new book club and in March about the next opening of the Hanging Out with Barbara Sher doors. In between, we’re expecting one more new course. Be sure you are on the mailing list (signup form below Barbara’s photo on this page) or check back here regularly.
please enrol me in hanging out. i am sending check on bank of america to barbara on 13 nov, sorry for delay, missed my mail.
Super, Ann! I sent Patty an email (and you too). Glad you’ll be joining us!
I have signed you up, Ann. Thanks for sending the check. Watch for the two emails coming your way.
Hello Mrs. Sher !
I have the great chance to take part at your programme this weekend in Frankfurt. I am very pleased to get to know you, to learn wonderful things and also to meet interested and interesting people there 🙂
Also I am pleased to be the one who will drive you around this time ( safely, of course !)
All of it was a very spontanaeous and unexpected chain of decisions, but it shurely had to be this way.
Have a good flight tomorrow and we will meet Sunday morning !
All the best******
Irina Andrei
Sounds wonderful, Irina! Will you email me so I have your email address and phone? Just go to barbarasher.com to the ‘Contact’ button and write me from there. Your email will show up in my personal inbox and I’ll be able to answer you and get your information from there.
Patty, could you please let me have details on the success team leader program? I am in Northern Virginia and my nearest team leader is in Richmond which is about 2 hours drive away. Not sure if it would be possible to do a phone link – I see other people have had the same idea. Any info you can provide would be great.
Hi Sally. Did you notice our leaders in D.C., Silver Spring, MD, and Cambridge, MD, too? If you would like to become a leader, please read over http://shersuccessteams.com, including the Frequently Asked Questions and fill out the application or send me your questions by email. Or if you would like to be a member of a Success Team by Phone on Wednesday evenings in January and February of 2015, send me an email. Barbara and I both receive email sent to webmaster@barbarasclub.com and reply from our individual email accounts.