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.
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The Dare to Soar Telesummit Recordings
All of the mini-workshops at our September 13, 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.
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.
Members of ongoing book clubs should contact webmaster@barbarasclub.com for assistance.
Registration is now open for the 2020 Live the Life You Love Book Club. Join us by December 2nd!
Please keep me updated with upcoming programs.
If you’re on Barbara’s mailing list, you’ll be notified. The link is on every page, or on http://barbarasher.com, where you get a bonus of a PDF on running Idea Parties. Barbara’s executor is pushing her paperwork through a clogged-up legal pipeline. We hope to resume as soon as it pops out the other end.
I may or may not be on the mailing list; I kinda think I am. But just to be sure, I’m adding my name to the mailing list thingiee, clear at the bottom of this page.
Are we entitled to the Idea Party? If so, for how long, and how do I access it?
Everyone is welcome to the Idea Party. There’s an image link in the righthand column (with a horse having tea), or you can use this link:
https://barbarasclub.com/ideaparty/
Just jump right in. No sign up is necessary, and you’re free to use a pseudonym if you like.
I missed Refuse to Choose again. When is the next one?
The next Refuse to Choose book club is probably July of 2021, Kate. Registration for the Live the Life You Love book club should open on June 18, 2020.
Hello,
Is Barbara Sher still running courses for people who would like to learn her method? If so kindly confirm the date for 2020 and where to sign up.
thank you.
You can purchase the Success Teams leader kit at http://shersuccessteams.com to learn to lead Success Teams and Idea Parties. However, Barbara is no longer running any coach training.
I see workshops and summits, but no courses. Where are they?
Thank you.
Our book clubs are 16-week courses, Gary, and WriteSpeak is a year-long course that launches every March. The next book club is one of our most popular, as we’ll be reading Barbara’s I Could Do Anything, a NY Times best seller and her best guide to dealing with the resistance we experience as we pursue (or even try to recall) our dreams.
Thanks Patty, I am seeing it now!
I tried to sign up for the newsletter just now but the link to do so wasn’t working.
That’s odd, Linda. Try the one on the right side of http://barbarasher.com. It offers you a free PDF on running an Idea Party.
Hello
What is the difference between being on the mailing list and signing up for the newsletter?
Thank you!
Katherine
There is no difference, Katherine.
When does the newsletter come out? I thought I signed up for it Sept 8th? I want to make sure my signup went through. Thank you
A newsletter went out today, Katherine, and you were on the mailing list for it.