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


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896 thoughts on “Hanging Out

  1. Ok- Here goes….been working so hard for years at my “make a living job” and “be a good citizen life” I can’t remember what I used to like, or what fun is. It sure isn’t my “make a living job” anymore, or anything else I do. I’m rebelling and hanging out here to make some changes and get some zest back into life. So there.

  2. I have all of your books, even Teamworks. 🙂 I can’t wait to see how your new club works. I’m looking forward to seeing videos of past events.

    I have a DVD of one of your Idea Parties that you did for PBS. It’s great. One man stood up and said he wanted to be a golf pro, but it took two years of training. Within a few minutes, you and audience members showed him how he could get started NOW .. without two years of training.

    If you have more Idea Party videos or retreat videos, I would love to see them.

    • You will, Win. I remember that one well. It’s actually called ‘Barbara Sher’s Idea Party’ and the best part is that workshop they filmed that same day. You have to see it to believe it. It’s always the same, in person, on the telephone or even on Twitter. Idea Parties are my favorite thing ever. That same day someone said his wish was to be the voice behind some hit animation show like the Simpsons. He had an amazing voice, deep and rich. I said what someone had told me from the commercials industry: “Do you know that you have what they call in the voiceover business, ‘the voice of God?’ You should consider making commercials or being an announcer, too.” Did you get to see that part? (I hope they filmed it.) He was hired by 3 people within 5 minutes, including the public tv company who was filming the whole thing. 🙂

  3. This first week, I’ll be watching for your comments and staying up late answering a lot of them, too, so jump in and say something. After all the waiting, this Monday’s offering might seem like it was over too soon. I think that’s what you’ll need most Mondays – something funny and short, something to think about as you start your week. But this week, here at the beginning, if you have anything to say about how I think building character is dangerous, and how positive attitudes aren’t nearly enough to make a real difference, jump in and say so. I won’t always follow you into a ‘comment conversation,’ but today I will. Deal?

    From Barbara (posted by her assistant Win)

  4. My confirmation click brought me to this page, but I am already signed up! I have my days when it feels like, in spite of the courses and activities that I have already done, that “nothing works for me”, and it feels like I failed somehow. However, I have certainly been in there doing things all this time. (!)

  5. I just purchased my membership! I discovered Barbara last fall and read “It’s Only Too Late if You Don’t Start Now,” but haven’t had much time to put the suggestions into play. I am excited to be a member of Hanging Out With Barbara Sher because I think it will nudge me into action!

  6. Hi Barbara,

    I will just LOVE this, I know it, and want to be a part of it! Just like Susan, do you think the installment payment will be an option? I’d love to be a charter member! Cheers!
    Victoria

    • Patty’s looking into it. She said the yearly fee is a big savings. The monthly fee will cost more. And I’m pretty sure we won’t have anything set up in time for you to be a charter member. Let me ask.

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