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
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$197 for a full year membership gift certificate
Gift certificate mailed within 48 hours. Contact webmaster@barbarasclub.com if you do not receive yours.
Hello,
Will I receive an acknowledgment of my CC yearly payment made via my iPhone today? Thank you!
I’m sure you will, Jan. Everybody else does. But I’ll wait until Patty has a little time so she can answer you, too. She knows how to explain it.
You should receive it from PayPal. If you don’t, please send an email to webmaster@barbarasclub.com.
Hi Barbara, I am interested in Hanging Out but I saw the note you wrote on Year 4 focusing on scanners. Does that mean you have specific years 1, 2, 3 and now are developing 4? So can someone take year 4 instead of years 1, 2, or 3? As the world’s most scanning scanner, I would really like focus on that.
That’s what I had hoped, Linda, but it just isn’t working out that way, I’m afraid. I’m just too busy writing the new book and staying involved in Hanging Out to do that this year. I have a hunch I won’t get to that project for some time. If you like focus, you might want to join the next Refuse to Choose book club. The last ones were great, I hear. I’m not involved in those personally. They’re run by Patty Newbold and she does a great job.
Hi, this sounds good for me, however I am travelling October/November and wondering how I would keep up during that time. Maybe it’s best to join the next intake? When would that be? Thanks Patty
By then you’ll be so much a part of the group you’ll be able to catch up later. Although I find that most people manage to peek in to see what’s going on anyway. (I do!)
The information states you meet two or three times a week. What time would that be eastern standard and what if you can’t make it. Will there be a replay?
Thanks
Sylvia, you don’t need to show up at any particular time or wait for a recording. Everything is delivered online, on Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays. You will get an email from Barbara with a brief preview as each new online message from her becomes available. After you watch the video, read the words, in some cases do the exercise or go try out something fascinating on the web, you post a comment, just as you have done here. And other members, including Barbara, read it and may reply to you (as I have done here) or start a new comment to share their own reactions or questions.
The techie geeks call this meeting asynchronously (not at the same time). It fits everyone’s schedule and doesn’t leave anyone out.
If you’re off at the beach on Friday, you can join in the discussion when you get back on Monday, because those who are interested in discussing the day’s topic will have subscribed to receive email notices of later comments.
And this doesn’t include only the people who start on July 27 with you. It includes people who joined in March or last November, even some who joined in 2012 or 2013! You will get to know them all, and Barbara, too.
Dear Patty,
I am just trying to register for hanging out, but I cannot click at “sign up today” or any other red typing. Do I really have to use google chrome instead of Mozilla Firefox now? I am working with firefox since my first registry here and never had a problem like that.
Kind regards,
Melanie
Melanie, I suggest you refresh the page (F5 key or click on the circular arrow to the right of the address). The page really should work just fine in Firefox, so I suspect something just did not download correctly.
I don’t use cedit cards. Can I pay for my Hanging Out With Barbara Sher Membership with a U.S. Postal Money Order mailed to Genius Press?
David, you can send a money order to
Barbara Sher
Box 20052
Park West Station
New York, New York 10025
At the same time, please send an email to webmaster@barbarasclub.com to let us know. Be sure to include your full name and email address. Glad you’ll be joining us!
Need to cancel my account to hanging out. How do I do so?
I’ll take care of it for you, Zarinah.
Hi Patty…
I’ve just finished HO Year 3 (the repeat of Year 1) and I’m wondering if there’s any way to continue in HO. Or, is this the end? I really hope not, because I think these short yet powerful messages every week have done more to reshape my thinking than anything I’ve ever experienced before. My life has changed so much since joining HO – I’d like to keep that connection, if possible. Thanks, in advance.
Hello, Barbara:
I may have misunderstood HO, but I had rather thought it was for “scanners.” Did I misconstrue somehow? I do like Year 4 idea. I still wonder if it’s being a scanner or having ADD somehow that might define me?
Posted earlier from my smart phone, trying to access the same point in the conversation from my tablet.
@ Patty Is it the webmaster i should talk to about my membership? I sent a message but did not get an automated acknowledgement of my email so I can’t tell if it’s in anyone’s queue. thanks.
I’ve sent an email reply to you already, Tahiya, but for the benefit of others with the same question, writing to webmaster@barbarasclub.com is indeed what to do if you need any help with your Hanging Out membership or payments.
Yes, you did and thank you very much. I am just used to the automated “we got your email… yadda yadda yadda…” so I was making sure I didn’t mess up. You are VERY responsive for being just one person handling all of this. I guess it takes a scanner to spin all those plates, huh? Grin. Thank you again.