Hanging Out Registration Re-Opens in April 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. Patty Newbold will be your guide now that Barbara is no longer with us.
Registration Re-Opens April 3, 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 April 3, 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 and WriteSpeak Coach, Patty Newbold, 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 and WriteSpeak Coach, Patty Newbold, 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
$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 on April 3, 2025
Purchase a gift certificate
$197 for a full year membership gift certificate
Gift certificate mailed within 48 hours. Contact webmaster@barbarasclub.com if you do not receive yours.
Hi Patty!
Can you help me find an article (perhaps 2), please? There was at least one about an injustice each of us was driven to fight, usually from something that affected us as kids. Which post was that? Was there more than one?
Thanks!
—Mx
Is there still time to join the HO? I understand that phone calls just started yeaterday. Thanks, MEB
Maria, the calls are only in Year Two of Hanging Out. In Year One, the discussion is all written. We just let a new group into Year One, but the doors closed behind them on Sunday. We will re-open them in July. If you did not receive any of Barbara’s announcements about the most recent opening, please be sure to add your name to her mailing list under her photo on this page.
There are HO calls? I’ve been in HO since November. Am I missing something?
You’re not missing anything yet, Margarita. The calls are in year two of Hanging Out.
Thanks Patty!
HI everyone,
I’m looking for a few titles – with Audible recordings – that my fellow HO members would recommend. On one of our last HO calls, we discussed non-fiction book recommendations. Could you help to remind me of some we discussed? on Audiblie and with good narration too?
Karin
Karin,
I wasn’t on the last call but I do have a pretty serious Audible addiction. If you say a little bit about what you’re looking for I probably have a few suggestions for you.
An FYI to all Hanging Out members that this page (http://barbarasclub.com/hangingout/) is visible to both Hanging Out members and to all, including search engines. If there is something after /hangingout/ in the address, it’s visible only to Hanging Out members.
Nothing wrong with Karin’s comment or Rachel’s reply being on this page, but sometimes discussions posted here are mistaken for members-only discussions, so I like to post an occasional reminder.
I don’t understand, Patty. Do you mean comments on this Opening Page are visible to anyone and their search engines? Or is it HO in particular?
This particular page — the one with the box for purchasing gift certificates – is a public one, Alex.
But all of the pages with Barbara’s messages are visible to members only.
Hi Rachel, thanks!
Interests include in titles about being a mentor or advisor; starting a small business; coaching; navigating challenging conversations and challenging relationships (especially work politics; animal behavior and training; biographies and history; parenting; humor; women’s humor. I currently have “For The Love of a Dog” by Patricia McConnell and “The Trusted Advisor” queued.
I have paid for the hangout for the full year, but the e-mail confirmation I got just sends me back to this page. Maybe I’m misunderstanding something. Is this something that has a start date and isn’t going yet? I watched the video but I thought there would be some kind of discussion area or a different page once you log in. I get what it’s supposed to be but I feel like I’m missing a beat because I don’t really see anything I couldn’t see before I paid.
Thanks for any direction.
Tahiya
You will be able to log in on Sunday, Tahiya. Hanging Out begins on Monday.
oh! ok. great. thank you. looking forward to it. 🙂
Is there a monthly payment option for Hanging Out?
There is. Look for the Subscribe button, just below the big 30 Day Money Back Guarantee image, and just above the Gift Certificate box.
Hi Patti, 3/12/15
I was checking something and discovered that the end date of my subscription to Hanging Out is to discontinue on 3/31/15. That’s not right, it’s supposed to be for one year; I signed up for on July 27, 2014. Please extend to 7/27/15.
Thanks,
Patricia
I have sent you an email, Patricia.
I would like to signup for Hanging Out With Barbara at the $29 monthly charge. Can you send me a link where I can go to do this? I see that it is an automatic PayPal deduction and that would work great for me. Look forward to hearing from you.
Jamie, you will be able to do it right here on this page between March 23 and 29. PayPal starts monthly billings as soon as you register, and we don’t like those billings to run more than a month ahead of the Hanging Out schedule, which will begin on March 30th.
Please notify me when registration re-opens! Thanks!
Will do, Nadja.
Me too!
I would like to pay the $29.00 a month for your hang out group. I have tried to reach you through your webmaster and email and have not gotten a response. How do I select this option. You offering in your sells letter.
Thanks for your help
Sylvia, our replies may be landing in your spam filter. The $29 a month option will become available on March 23. PayPal will bill you every 30 days from the date of your first payment, and we don’t want them billing you more than a week ahead of our months.
Thanks you…I received the last reply.