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.
How can I get started now using Barbara’s Coaching Principals?
Does Barbara have Telephonic Coach Training?
Nothing by telephone, Mary. Check the Upcoming Events column on http://geniuspress.com/ for her next course, which is a mix of in-person and email/web with her, telephone with practice clients.
Hey, Patty,
I just clicked the button on the book club course ( I could do anything…), and went through paypal, and then it seemed like paypal wanted me to close out again. Can you check to see if I am signed up? If not, I will go to my paypal account again, but I just did not want to pay twice if it was an issue with the paypal account.
Also, if I want to buy this for a friend, how do I go about it? How can I pay and and make sure my friend has access?
Hope you are doing great! Hugs! Karla
You’re in, Karla! If you buy it for your friend and email me the info, I’ll straighten out anything our forms and payment scheme can’t handle.
Patty,
I cannot find the link to the bookclub…… I clicked on the link in your email, but it sent me to a place where everyone was saying they could not find the link 🙁
Your best bet is http://barbarasclub.com/member/ You can update your profile there and see links to every members-only page you have access to.
Would like to sign up for a resistance level 1 course…didn’t know these existed and I’m delighted to do one soon…
We just added a Level 1 Workshop recording in the dropdown list above. You will also get to ask Barbara your questions in the comments after you listen to it. And you will be ready for the Level 2 workshops, too.
I am going to move this post over here.
I need specific suggestions on how to build a network, for academic support/fine arts, such as teaching art, but also how to maintain and grow a fine arts network.
I so often close myself off, and just make things, but that social side is important.
I work with the Fremont Arts Council which runs the Solstice parade here, and due to that I am making the puppets, festival arts etc. There’s an audience. Lots of theater people, which may not be the people who get me, since I only see them during the events, almost never socially.
I don’t have as clearly a connection with the fine arts community. I do know people, but don’t feel the connections growing easily.
I want the part time decent pay position that will allow me to experiment with materials and focus on new work, etc or to be self employed. I have trouble focusing on a career goal just making one thing after another with no real goal beyond the immediate project.
No, you should move the post away from here (which, if you look up at the URL field at the top of your page, you’ll see is:
http://barbarasclub.com/courses/#comments
and you should move it to our private page, so we only have to look on one page to find you, and that is at
http://barbarasclub.com/resistance112
(Don’t know what I said to make you move here, but I’m sure I said something dumb. I’ve done it before.) 🙂
I have to leave the Chat now as I have to make an urgent phone call. I will see for more tomorrow. As I only could join the call after 1 hour I am curious to hear the full recording.
Thanking you in advance for ideas/comments and have a nice day/night where ever you live,
Ilse
Hi! I found you by accident, Lise! I was looking at this page for your comments (and answered one there, and asked you a question).
barbarasclub.com/resistance112
Come over there if you’re still on…
I need specific suggestions on how to build a network, for academic support, such as teaching art, but also how to maintain and grow a fine arts network.
I so often close myself off, and just make things, but that social side is important.
I work with the Fremont Arts Council which runs the Solstice parade here, and due to that I am making the puppets, festival arts etc. There’s an audience. Lots of theater people, which may not be the people who get me, since I only see them during the events, almost never socially.
I don’t have as clearly a connection with the fine arts community. I do know people, but don’t feel the connections growing easily.
I want the part time decent pay position that will allow me to experiment with materials and focus on new work, etc or to be self employed. I have trouble focusing on a career goal just making one thing after another with no real goal beyond the immediate project.
I didn’t see this comment either. Drat! I was looking for you over at barbarasclub.com/resistance112
I even saw your response to something over there, but didn’t know where the original comment was and it was here on this site instead (barbarasclub.com/courses).
Double Drat.
It’s hard to tell where I am. I was also looking for comments after the course and was off course, came here instead. and I was even looking for my comments here, and not finding the mall. thinking I hadn’t posted correctly. The wonders of easy access technology!
What stands ADD for?
Attention Deficit Disorder
Hope you’re posting over at barbarasclub.com/resistance112, lise, I believe I answered you over there.
Your comment in the call “too much choice / causes hysteria” said a lot to me
I’m glad, Lise.
I want you to know that anyone — even strangers — can read your comments on this ‘courses’ page and you should all come over to our private page at
barbarasclub.com/resistance112
While we wait for Lise, I’ll ask about book writing. You told a participant to day to get her book written. (She said she already had material.) What alternatives are there to get quick publishing?
There’s Print on Demand these days, if you want hard copies. And loads of ways to publish on amazon.com – if that’s what you mean…
Never mind! I just saw a new comment.