Hanging Out


Hanging Out Registration Re-Opens in April 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 April 4, 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 April 4, 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

30 day money back guarantee$197 for a full year

OR pay by the month – $24 per month

Registration Re-Opens on April 4, 2024


Buying a membership for someone else? Purchase a gift certificate. Good for a full year of Hanging Out at the then-current price whenever your recipient registers, which must be during an open registration period.

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Gift certificate mailed within 48 hours. Contact webmaster@barbarasclub.com if you do not receive yours.

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874 thoughts on “Hanging Out

  1. I’m wondering about this…I’m about to embark on the WriteSpeak course. Signing up for this Hanging Out sounds like maybe too much for my brain? Do you recommend doing the HO after the year is up?

  2. Dear Patty,
    I was surprised to discover your personal comment regarding my question. It makes me very happy for an actual response. Thank you Patty. I just read the email which Susan B. Anderson submitted and would like to respond if that is possible. I have been blessed to have been Introduced to the Bruno Groening Circle of Friends and also to learn about how children and all ages benefit. There is no charge and the Bruno Groening Communities for Children, Youth and Adults meet once every three weeks around the world. There is a one hour on-line Children’s Community Hour led by Angela Amdur if there is not a local community nearby. I want to let Susan know about this and to check this out by going to http://www.Bruno-Groening.org There is a one hour Introduction. After that a new Friend can attend a Community Hour anywhere in the world. The purpose of the Community Hours is to take in and fill up with the Healing Stream together, share experiences of doing this on one’s own and learn more about how to fine tune soul’s reception of the “Heilstrom”, the Healing Stream. It is the most grateful, grace-filled abundant and wholesome gift for oneself, one’s family, pets, plants, for Mother Earth, one’s neighbor, one’s life path and YES, the importance of one’s heart wishes.
    Note: Patty, I’m the person who has the elder cassette tape set of Dare To Live Your Dream.t. I am only missing tapes #6 and#7. Thank you for sending me to http://www.wishcraft.com It is wonderful to read other’s comments. Michale B. Estar

  3. Happy Birthday from the Universe to me!
    Thank you, Barbara for being my birthday gift!
    YES! My 55th birthday and while doing what i always do, (watching TED talks!) I encountered your talk!
    My DREAM is what you are into!
    I’m soooo close, developing many solutions and techniques, note card after note card, journals and inspirations and secrets to survival….

    After a successful career in Graphic Design in Washington DC, at 30, I fell in love, married, and had two children. 4 years later, my son at 4 days old, was the last I heard of my husband…He left, went MIA. Stayed under the radar for 20 years.
    I was back home in Pennsylvania by then, living below poverty, struggling alone every moment…
    But, WE DID IT! …Too! Just like you!

    My DREAM is to build a system and a structure that can help CHILDREN by helping their struggling single moms! Grassroots. Community goals. Support for moms so their children thrive.

    Maybe here, i can share?

    So, HELLO BARBARA and your tribe!
    Im so excited to begin learning through you, and becoming a disciple!
    Shine on!
    Susan

    PS..missed the registration date by a week.
    How much of a rule is your deadline?

    • Sorry, Susan. We are definitely sticklers on those registration dates. We have to be. Hanging Out will re-open in July. In the meantime, we’ve got a free Telesummit and a new book club coming up soon, so be sure you’re on Barbara’s mailing list.

  4. Hi Patty
    I just purchased a Hangout Gift for the year for my wife.
    Can I get her coupon before the window closes tonight so she can start tomorrow.
    Is this possible
    Thanks all
    Michael

  5. Hello. I don’t fully understand how hanging out works or if the format will work for me. In particular, i can’t figure out how members interact with with each other (since there must be 100’s of them). Since there is a money back guarantee, I thought I would try it for a week or two and see if it works for me. So I’m just checking…I can purchase a year membership and then contact you for a refund if after a few weeks I decide the format isn’t for me? I’m sure ithe information is great – I just need to see if my 20th century brain can keep up with it.

    Thank you!

  6. Dear Barbara,
    I would love to join this Community of fulfilling dreams. I am on a very slim budget at present and have been for quite some time. I think it has something to do with a handicap of poverty. It is a poverty of not being able to fully give or fully receive Love.
    Nevertheless, until I get some work or sell some art work or some such way to add to my income, I will have to wait until the next opportunity to join in your invitation to grow wings of expanding opportunities of fulfillment. I turn 76 in March. I am recovering from a backwards fall down some steep attic stairs due to “not listening” to inner guidance, a big theme in my soul journey of this lifetime.
    I do have the older cassette collection of your tapes, “Dare to Live Your Dreams”. I am missing tape 6,, 7 and 11 but I do have some material to work with until I can afford to jump on board. Thank you for the invitation I will join in spirit until then.
    Is there a way to replace tape 6, 7, and 11 or do you sell this “Dare To Live Your Dream” in CDs or an update on the audio teaching/sharing/growing/guiding etc.
    Loving gratitude, Michale

  7. can I join at the monthly rate and then switch to yearly rate after I see if this will work with my other projects> . I expect that it will help me stay focused,,..and bring the joy I wish to
    create around me. At the end of the month I am unable to make a larger investment. Thanks.

  8. I am also wondering the same thing. Also concerned because I feel like I have been following my passions and may need more time with
    self nurturing and rest. How can this hang-out support my need for grounding and balance.
    Thanks . Nyanna

    • Nyanna, Hanging Out is not about pursuing your passions (or anything else). It’s about exploring what makes you feel alive, what sparks your interest, what you can stop doing so you can be who you were meant to be.

  9. Hello,

    I am interested in joining “Hanging Out”. I read the description of what is included, such as the three e-mails a week with things to such as things to
    Read, Watch and Do. I was just wondering how the connection with others works. Looking at the comments, I see people referring to the community and support, but how does that work ? I am not on Facebook and just wonder how people support/encourage etc. one another.

    Thanks,
    Susan

    • The communication is all in writing, Susan. It’s a lot like the comments in https://barbarasclub.com/ideaparty/ except only Hanging Out members can see the comments and there are many more of them. It’s your choice for each of Barbara’s messages to the group to decide if you’d like to receive emails letting you know about each new comment about that message or not. And past members remain part of the community, so they can join in these conversations, too, if they’ve continued their subscriptions or if they revisit the message along with the newest members.

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