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.
Is there a way to pay-by-the-month for a gift certificate for someone?
My friend Dana White signed me up for a years subscription yesterday Sunday November 2, 2015. Im having a hard time signing in . Can you help me? Please get back to me soon. Dana White paid the $226 November 2, 2015 with paypal for me Andrea Moore…: )
Andrea, you are all signed up. You’ll be able to log in on November 15th. Hanging Out will begin on Monday, November 16. Did you receive the two emails, one with the subject line Welcome to Hanging Out with Barbara Sher and the other with the subject line Thank You! And Welcome to Hanging Out with Barbara Sher? If not, please send an email to webmaster@barbarasclub.com. If you did, adding the sender of each of them to your contacts list will make sure your spam filter never keeps you from getting an important Hanging Out email.
I absolutely love Barbara’s work and I was hoping to find an online success team via webinar. If you would like to collaborate to create online success teams, please let me know. I have 20 years of group facilitation experience, online marketing experience, and now webinar experience.
Could you please clarify what Hanging Out is, and the purpose? Is it a series of emails? …videos? …a virtual social network? …
Hi Sharon,
concerning Hanging Out: My first year is ending in November, but I’m going to subscribe for the second year because it’s so helpful. Like a greenhouse it gives me a lot for my development at my own pace.
This is what Barbara wrote about HO in her Newsletter a few weeks ago (you might like to subscribe for the newsletter. But I have to warn you: you’ll keep getting interesting and exciting offers all the time!!):
“It’s different from anything I’ve ever done. The whole experience is not about setting or achieving goals. It’s about hanging out comfortably, warming your hands at the fire, surrounded by good, interesting people. Listening when you don’t feel like talking. Stepping in when you have something you want to say. And the biggest surprise for me came when the comments started showing up. I wanted others to feel supported and that felt great. But I wound up feeling supported myself. Maybe you don’t know this, but I’ve often been considered an oddball like lots of you. I’ve talked about things that excited me and watched people roll their eyes. So having people to talk to in this very wonderful way and being able to send these messages to them means a lot to me.
What do I send? Three things a week. At least one of them is an audio or video taken from one of my workshops or retreats because I want you to get a brief, often funny, important reminder about how you can live a life you love. The second message each week is an exercise, an easy one that opens your eyes to something remarkable you might not have seen before. Or sometimes it’s a story about someone who took an unexpected route to living their big dream. And there’s always some totally delicious Brain Candy at the end of every week, some fascinating story or video about someone who fascinates me, or someone who did something so jolly, so unexpected and enjoyable and thrilling or heart-warming that it is sure to make sparks fly for you.
Hanging Out is just a gentle nudge, three times a week for a year, toward a life you love, instead of the more energetic planning and actions you’ll find in my books and teaching programs. And the community that arrived and will welcome you is surprisingly generous and friendly and, somehow (because we’re all so different), truly like-like-minded people. Hanging Out will start right up on November 16th. If you’re already there, you like it a lot. If you’re not, I hope you’ll join us.”
I joined hanging out with Barbara. I am not receiving any weekly emails
Karen
Karen, check you spamfilter or contact Patty directly: send an email to the webmaster webmaster@barbarasclub.com … some email-providers “eat” these emails …
as far as i know i have joined “hanging out again”
Peter, you have been a member of Hanging Out Again since November. You should have received the Clark’s Villa video today. If not, please send a note to webmaster@barbarasclub.com
thanks Patty, all good.( i was getting a little mixed up)
Hi,
Can someone contact me about my confusion re: posting comments on the identity exercise.
I got a message that says “duplicate comment” although this isn’t true…
Still confused.
I did join Hanging Out on Sunday the 26th 2015.
Sincerely,
A n d r e a ~
Will do, Andrea.
Hi Guys,
I’m a new member and on Day 1 of the identity exercise I sent a long comment which I don’t see as posted. It did seem to be posted when I wrote it on Monday.
I’m a little confused…
A n d r e a ~
I joined “Hanging Out With Barbara Sher”, and got the welcome e-mail, yet I can not get in to see the video, as it requires a password that I forgot…got a new one and it still won’t let me in. Persevering and also hard to get to a computer, so please respond promptly.
I wish to be there but it is not possible just because some issue but please i wish you to be with her
Dear Barbara,
I guess I will subscribe this time.
Could you please explain again how the groups will be put together? How many people are in one group? How much contact and exchange is required? I’m working (nearly) fulltime, feeling exhausted in the evenings. Listening – yes. Writing and supporting somebody else during the week – not really. I’m asking because I don’t like to be unreliable.
Being German, will I be put in a group with other Germans automatically? I love the English language and was wondering if I could be in a group with British people?
Thanks for your reply,
Tina
Hanging Out is all one group, Tina. All speak English. They come from the UK, US, Netherlands, Germany, Australia, and many other places. Nothing is required. It’s all voluntary. Barbara will send out a message every Monday, Wednesday, and Friday. They are usually something you can read or listen to or watch in about 5 or 10 minutes. Then you are free to join the written discussion or not. If you want to be notified of new comments on any message, leave a comment or use the Subscribe link.
Everyone who joins today will receive the same message on the same day. Others who joined earlier will be receiving different messages, but they may have subscribed earlier to comments on the message you’re reading today, and they may reply if you comment.