Hanging Out


Hanging Out Registration Re-Opens in November 2025

Hanging Out will be the jewel in the crown of Barbara’s Club. To be honest, I think it’s going to be the jewel in the crown of my lifetime’s work. That’s what it feels like. —Barbara Sher, 2012

Barbara called this members-only program Hanging Out, because she wanted it to be like those wonderful moments just hanging out together at her retreats and weekend workshops. Our Sher Success Teams Director will be your guide now that Barbara is no longer with us.

Sign up today for Hanging Out
Registration Re-Opens November 13, 2025
$197 for a full year

Barbara put together her most beloved ideas and stories and wrote her best stuff ever for Hanging Out. This was bigger than writing another book. It was a huge job, but every minute was a labor of love for her. And with this program she gives you videos from her retreats and workshops, loads of audio, new interactive stuff and other amazing things we can’t describe here or we’ll go on forever. All this in addition to the exercises that made a big difference to you in the past.

After almost a year HO is still my favourite thing on the internet and in my inbox. So many things I could just read over and over and find something each time. The world didn’t change but I’m different in it. -JD

I’m excited about this exercise. I’ve printed it out to work on over the weekend. Barbara, I look forward to working it through and circling back. You’re a gemstone! -A Hanging Out member in Week 38

Once you’re a member, the rest will be easy. Every week, three times a week, via email, I’ll send you some very special things to read, watch and do. They’re not what you expect, I’m pretty sure of that. As much as you may like my books, what you’re going to find in Hanging Out is very new and very different. You’ll want to make comments, compare notes and talk to the other members of Hanging Out, and that’s exactly what happens here. It changes the whole experience into something entirely new, something most of us are missing and need as much as vitamins and sunshine. The effect on most members has been profound.

Registration Re-Opens November 13, 2025
$197 for a full year


You can’t get Hanging Out all at once like a book that ends up on that pile of books you plan to read, and you can’t stick it back on your bookshelf and forget what your life is supposed to be. Barbara learned too much about what’s important for us humans to take that kind of chance.

You’ll receive emails from Barbara every Monday, Wednesday and Friday for a year, announcing the day’s video, audio message, Identity Exercise, Reality Series success story or Brain Candy she prepared for you. Barbara’s Director of Sher Success Teams will be reading and responding to your online comments. You’ll also be able to read Barbara’s replies to comments from our first eight years of Hanging Out.

Hanging out has really developed clarity in my life. One thing that I love about you Barbara is that you never tell anyone to just try harder and you don’t shame in any way. You support and encourage which is so very rare. You make sense of the non-sense. This group has provided something wonderful for me. Even the subtle messages are always very powerful. —Michelle

So what is it?

It’s easier to say what it’s not. Hanging Out is not a how-to course or a motivation program. I sometimes think it’s designed for people who have worked too hard and forgot what it’s like to wake up in a goal-free world full of fresh, stimulating ideas, fun and camaraderie.

I’ll always have courses for you on Barbara’s Club so you can find your dreams and achieve your goals, but Hanging Out is not about goal achievement. Instead, it’s more like what one member called “a profound and delicious form of Identity Rehab.”

I absolutely love the idea of Barbara’s Club being integrated into the everyday world—nothing to leave behind—and a consistent source of inspiration. Thank you! —Victoria, by email

If you join us here, Barbara’s emails and online messages will be popping into your life briefly, happily and relentlessly, over and over, waking up your senses, making you laugh and go exploring and, most important of all, helping you remember who you are and how good life is supposed to be.

You’ll receive emails from Barbara every Monday, Wednesday and Friday for a year, announcing the day’s video, audio message, Identity Exercise, Reality Series success story or Brain Candy she prepared for you. Barbara’s Director of Sher Success Teams will be reading and responding to your online comments. You’ll also be able to read Barbara’s replies to comments from our first eight years of Hanging Out, before she passed away.

Thank you from the bottom of my heart for creating Hanging Out with Barbara. There have been so many “favorite” posts. One that stands out is your description of how you decorated your apartment with all the glorious references to color. I wanted to sink into one of your armchairs and absorb it all. Finding our originality. Yes. Discovering ways to express it. Yes. Realizing that time is short and excuses long. Yes. Boxing up all our should, would and could and relaxing into today, into now, into this moment. Yes. Finding that joy is the reward for allowing oneself to just be who you are. Yes. So many wonderful lessons I have learned, relearned, and unlearned this year…What I have learned this year has changed my life. For that I am eternally grateful. – A Hanging Out Member at the end of the year

No risk – full refund if you cancel your subscription within the first 30 days

30 day money back guarantee$197 for a full year

OR pay by the month – $24 per month

Contact webmaster@barbarasclub.com if you encounter any problems with payment or if you don’t receive a “Thank You! And Welcome to Hanging Out” email within an hour after paying.

Registration Re-Opens November 13, 2025


Buying a membership for someone else? Purchase a gift certificate. Good for a full year of Hanging Out at the then-current price whenever your recipient registers, which must be during an open registration period.

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896 thoughts on “Hanging Out

  1. I have been following you for years and have all your books, have lead several Success Teams and am so excited about this new adventure. It is perfect timing for me. I am starting a clothing business, specifically for women over forty, and I need some space to set up a sewing room.

    Thanks for any suggestions and am so excited about being with this tribe.

    Kathleen

  2. We’ll have lots of good things for free right here, Vern, so don’t go away. And join the Idea Party on this site. State a wish and an obstacle (make it specific – you get more than one, but we need only one wish at a time) and we’ll do everything we can to help you overcome the obstacle and achieve the wish. Isolation is the dream killer. Come on in and warm your hands at the fire. You’re more than welcome.

  3. I would like to join Hanging Out with Barbara, however, I already have a commitment for June 9th and would miss the teleconference. Will you have an alternative date for anyone who can’t make it then?

    • We’re hoping to have an alternative date for people who can’t make it, and in the meantime, we’ll post a recording of June 9 for you to listen to.

  4. I managed to beat the library computer into submission yesterday, finally disabled the pop-up blockers that were blocking everything, and was able to listen in at the “launch party” today on a land line for an hour and a half! How inspiring! Thrilling! Loved it! I don’t have a credit card, so can’t pay for anything on line. This is how I missed the last idea party, on the 14th. I wish there was an alternative to paying for people like me. I could send a postal money order. I will do what I can. I have big dreams and big obstacles.
    This month, I need to journey from my home in NM to Las Vegas Nevada where my cousin is dying and to try to put her into a nursing home. I live on $450 per month, and the trip is going to cost at least $350. I keep looking for work . . . .

    • Hope you heard from me. Check your inbox for an email. Just a little thing to let you know how highly I think of scrappers like you.

    • Hi Mary Ann:
      Don’t let lack of credit card stop you from shopping online.

      1) I just checked and Barbara’s order form takes PayPal. Setting up a PayPal account is free.

      And you don’t even need PayPal if you want to make it even simpler. I buy lots of stuff online when there is a PayPal form but don’t use PayPal account.

      2) You can use the PayPal order form and input a bank debit Visa or Mastercard number. I have used both with no problem. Even places that don’t use PayPal will take a Visa or Mastercard number from a bank debit card. I have used both kinds of debit cards this way. I opened a small bank account just for online shopping only and keep a hundred dollars in it so that there’s no bank charge! This works a charm for the home shopping tv networks too.

      3) You might consider getting a pre-paid Visa or Mastercharge card from your local drugstore or gift shop. There is a service charge added to the cost of the card. I’ve never used one but one of these but might be worth it for the convenience.

      Another tip: I don’t use library computer for online shopping. I make sure I use one that has access to the Microsoft accessories programs file
      and use the online screen tool (it’s included free with all Microsoft operating systems.) For added security this free tool allows me to tap out my personal details and account numbers without using a computer keyboard.

      There’s always a way… I’ve been following Barbara Sher since 1981…
      Best of luck to you.

      Bee

  5. Thank you Barbara for being such a force in my life I have been following you from afar for years reading your books and being inspired but always giving way to obstacles because I thought that they represented reality and that’s what I thought I should be doing . With you (your books, videos) I can dream. Now I am at rock bottom recovering from health problems that brought everything to a halt. Had to change how I look at things. So I find myself getting better but unemployed but feeling blessed so rock bottom become a great place to start again. I cannot join the Club this year but I will next year for sure. Thank you so much for doing what you do.
    Vern

  6. Eager to get back to picking up the dream-thread I began several years ago (have been somewhat distracted by husband having surgeries, but hoping he’ll be back to his usual self soon) – so I can get back to my stuff too!

    So very glad you’ve developed this Hangout – I’m sure it will help many, many of us who would otherwise hang alone. (Benjamin Franklin would be pleased.)

    All best,
    Kate

  7. Thank you!!!! I am so excited! And the Launch Party was great. It’s going to be a really awesome year. Kristin

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