Hanging Out Registration Re-Opens in October 2024
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 October 3, 2024
$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 October 3, 2024
$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 her 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 encountered any problems with payment or if you didn’t receive a “Thank You! And Welcome to Hanging Out” email within an hour after paying.
Registration Re-Opens on October 3, 2024
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.
Hello, I want to sign up for March 2016. Not sure how to do that…. Really want to be a part of this group.
Check back on March 13th, 2016. We’ll be ready for you then, Lauren.
I am very interested in the Hanging Out program, but I have a question. Will the cost include any personal advice/coaching or answers to email from Barbara herself? I realize she receives a LOT of email and requests for her time, so it’s understandable if she cannot do this, but I was wondering how much one-on-one time is included. Will there be live online webinars? I’m not clear on exactly what will happen.
Thanks,
Mary.
Barbara, I have recently (re)discovered your work and am so grateful to you.
You have described me so precisely, and given me the understanding of why I cannot seem to keep myself interested in a subject.
I am a classic scanner.
Normal time for me with a subject is about three weeks, during which I dive deep, learn a huge amount, then completely lose interest.
I’ve frustrated myself for decades with my total inability to stick with anything, despite having clear potential and talent at any number of things I’ve tried.
Of course I could have learned about this scanner personality 10 years ago when I first bought your book ‘I Could Do Anything If I Only Knew What It Was’ … but… in true scanner fashion… I got distracted by ‘something or other’ and stopped reading after the first 3 chapters. (oops)
I have since rescued the book from the cardboard box in the wardrobe where it has sat for the last decade, and am reading again with joy.
Can’t wait for March to sign up to Hang Out with you, and a whole bunch of people just like me… and desperately hoping I won’t get distracted by something else (lol) before you open up the Registration.
At 49, with nothing of note achieved in my life (a huge and constant source of disappointment to me… and many others in my family) I feel so relieved to now at least know why I am like I am.
Thank you again.
Love your work…
Nick
Not clear if we need to wait a certain date to register. Or if we can buy now. The buying now button is only for gift certificate ? Nadia
The buy now button is only for a gift certificate. If you like, you can buy one now and use it when we re-open the doors in March. Those who join in March will begin Hanging Out with Barbara on March 28th.
Thank you Patty. March begins in 2 days !!!
It does not cover Eurostar trains between Paris & London, although passholder fares are provided.
Barbara you are absolutely amazing and a true gift to all of us…
I feel like I just discovered Santa Claus all over again! You are like a warm bowl of chicken soup when I’m feeling so down on myself. Your gentle accepting nature is overwhelming. And I could listen to your lovely voice forever.
I am a newbie to your world, which I discovered recently, while I was searching the web for yet another source that would teach me to
“fit into the world.” If I could count how many times, I have said, why can’t I find just ONE thing and stick to it until I die, I would be a multi-billionaire for sure. I actually broke into tears as I listened to your video where you asked the audience several questions, to help them establish whether or not they were a “scanner personality.” You nailed me up one side and down the other. I raised my hand and said YEP on every question you asked. I even yelled at my husband to come a running, because I finally found out that I am not from another planet after all! What is really funny, is I tried to explain to a co-worker about the scanner personality and how really precious they are and she literally said to me, “You just need to go to the Dr. and get a subscription for ADD, otherwise you will never be able focus on ONE thing long enough to establish a lasting career.” Ain’t that a hoot and a holler for you! I have said a zillion times, “I’m like a bee in a flower garden…Oh that is such a beautiful rose, oh wait, there’s a Petunia, OMG there’s a Sunflower. So many flowers, so little time.” Now I also know why I busted up laughing after reading that someone with a short attention span, might blurt out right in the middle of an important discussion, “Oh look there’s a Chicken!” My mind listens until boredom sets in (which happens quickly) and my train of thought is on another track before you blink. Once the new mental challenge has been met, let’s move it along folks, so to speak. I am currently taking a course in web design, a course in Aromatherapy, a course on strengthening your Intuition for better abundance and let’s not forget the book I’m reading on learning how to give Angel card readings. I even learned to pour my own beeswax candles for Christmas presents, while learning to make wool dryer balls too. (That’s really a story)
I am now a loyal Barbara Sher fan for sure..I signed up to receive your emails and I won’t expect them daily or even every hour because I listened to another one of your videos where you said that’s not your thing. Good girl, please stay “scanner true.” God bless you my dear..Theresa
Theresa,
Welcome! What a delightful descriptive post that will make anyone in Barbara’s Club super happy that you are here, and Barbara Sher most of all, I am sure!
Best Wishes from one Scanner to another and thank you for making me smile on a rainy rough night!
Lisa Mancelyn
Awww thank you Lisa. I am looking forward to being a part of Barbara’s wonderful scanner family…
Hi Theresa,
“And I could listen to your lovely voice forever.”
Same here! Often I’d watch some YouTube video and then encouraged get up and do something!
There’s a quote I love in Barbara’s Refuse To Choose (Use all of your interests, passions, and hobbies to create the life and career of your dreams):
“If you’ve reached the conclusion that you should give up your attempts to conform to the norm and you’re ready to get the most out of your curious mind and your many talents, it’s time to take a new direction. Instead of changing yourself as you once wanted to, you’re going to change your surroundings. You need to roll up your sleeves and direct you energies toward creating an environment for yourself that will support you exactly as you are.”
Hanging Out is a fantastic place to come to that conclusion and bit by bit create a supporting environment. 🙂 I’m in Hanging Out Year Two now (and in the Refuse To Choose Book Club) and it has done me indescribably much good.
So – welcome to this new land, fellow Scanner!
Hi Johanna and thank you so much for your insight and I hope to join the Refuse to choose book club too.
Drat! Day late, so to speak. I plan to register in March of 2016 since I missed this recent opportunity.
All I know is that whenever I’ve read anything of yours or looked at your videos online, I am uplifted. My mood improves dramatically and my faith in life and hope for the future is renewed.
Thank you for all you do for so many people, including me!
Adrienne,
It will be worth the wait, I promise! I am a mega-fsn of Barbara Sher fan who feels the same way you do whenever I connect with her work and play. She is even more amazing than you think! Of course, you are too!…And everyone here is! Geniuses everywhere!
Welcome and Best Wishes!
Lisa Mancelyn
Hello,
I wanted to sign up for Hanging Out nur couldn’t because of computer troubles.Is there still a chance that I could join now.That would be great!
All the best
Doro
Hi Barbara,
I forgot to sign up this weekend for the annual subscription – was a little set back by the Paris thing… if possible I’d still like to join. Thanks so much!
Cornelia
Patty or Barbara or Anyone,pls:
I paid for Hanging Out last year (Nov 2014) & as I understand it, my subscription is up. I would like to understand whether I am still able to see the posts from the Nov 2014 – Nov 2014 period … or, do I need to pay again.
I don’t want to go further with a year2 subscription because I don’t feel I fully kept up with year 1 and I wish to go back out the posts I missed for year 1.
Please let me know if I can do that?
Thank you.
Mary
Oops, sent #2 should have read: … “whether I am still able to see the posts from the Nov 2014 – Nov 2015 period …”
You don’t need to pay to read any message you’ve already paid for, Mary. I sent you an email with details.