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.
Happy Birthday Barbara!
Is there anyone involved in printing books who knows the ins and outs of production? Perhaps where to get some free publishing software that handle a full range of formats? I was in production working on a graphic novel project, which I will post on Kickstarter.com and my software glitched. Luckily, I had saved a copy of it on disc.
Thanks Namaste’
Did you get an answer to this? I’d like the same info.
If not, head out to the Idea Party on http://www.barbarasclub.com
and the big (great) forum:
http://www.barbarasher.com/boards
I have another technical question. How can we get notifications of when someone responds to our comments? Right now, I’m just scanning (so to speak!) through all the comments in the most recent posts, but that takes a lot of time. I’d hate to miss a good conversation just because I didn’t happen to see someone’s post. Thanks for any help!
P.S. I see the RSS feed subscription option, but I can’t quite figure out how to find the folder the messages go into. It’s often possible to get email notifications–that should be the case if this website is based on WordPress or similar.
There is a little check box under your question to be notified by email when a question is responded to.
I think this was said, but first you must reply, and while you’re replying, that little box shows up below the typing area with the box to check. I can see mine while I’m typing. It says:
[ ] Notify me of followup comments via e-mail.
Dear Barabara, dear Webmaster,
I have technical questions:
i can not access the site from my IPhone and i wonder why. I have latest IoS version and latest IPhone. Do you have an idea?
Secondly if I access from my PC I can not see any of the videos. How can that be?
Thank you.
Siri
Hi Sri
Patty’s living in a new place, beautiful but way up in the hills, and working on getting an internet connection. (She had one! Solid as a rock. But I think it went away while I was sleeping.) It was her plan to spend this weekend fixing the video reception so everyone could get it (there seem to be huge variations between macs & pcs, flash and mv4 and some other names I forget right now, new and old computers, smartphones, iPads, etc. and a whole bunch of other things I don’t understand). If anyone can make it work, it’s Patty. But our emails have been bouncing for the last 6 hours, so I know something’s up. I also know how frustrating it is to not be able to see anything. But it won’t be long now. You can trust everything’s being done that can be done. Hang on. It won’t be long now.
Hi Barbara,
I wish you great future success and continued creativity.
Here is something from me.
http://yilmazalimoglu.com/2012/05/25/the-wondrous-spirit-of-being/
Take Care and Be well.
Thank you, Yilmaz. I read what you wrote. It’s beautiful.
I’m totally impressed with this business model. While I can’t afford it, it puts a reasonable cost on getting access to one of the most down to earth and intelligent coaches that I know. I wish you great future success and continued creativity.
Thank you, Robert. That’s high praise and I appreciate it.
I guess you can live your life without awareness of your feelings but awareness of them can certainly enrich them. that might be why stories and drama are so much fun.
Greetings!
I just wanted to say how happy I am to have “Hanging Out With Barbara Sher”(and friends!) time on Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays to look forward to…or, if you’re like me and sometimes want/need a boost on one of the other days of the week…a “Barbara Sher treat” from MWF can be saved for T/Th/Sa or Su to view! Of course there are plenty of great Barbara Sher exercises to do on those days anyway…but the MWF treats are surprises which adds to their boost factor.
Thanks for your presents/presence, Barbara! I can’t wait to unwrap the next treat you send our way!
Best Wishes to Everyone!
Lisa Mancelyn
Is there still a way to sign up or am I too late? It’s May 8th and the site says register no later than May 4th…. Please tell me I can still join!
You can still join! If you hurry, you might even get in as a Charter Member. I did not turn that off on the 4th, but I will tonight. And you can join as a regular member at any time.
It’s a bit complicated, so it might help if I describe how it worked for me. The first 4 emails in connection with my membership went to the email address that Paypal has for me. It’s an old Yahoo address that I don’t use much any more. Here’s a list of the emails:
1) From: paypal. Subject: “Receipt for your Payment to Barbara Sher”
2) From: “Webmaster”. Subject: “Thank You!” This is the one that contained my username (same as email address) and password.
3) From: “Barbara Sher”. Subject: “Confirm Your Subscription” This one contains a link you need to click on to confirm your subscription.
4) From: “Barbara Sher”. Subject: “Welcome to Hanging Out”. This is a welcome message from Barbara. It looks just like her newsletters. Right at the bottom it says “To unsubscribe or change subscribe options visit” Then there is a link to click on. By using this link I changed the email address for receiving emails to my main Gmail address. All emails after this arrived at that address. But I still had to use the old Yahoo address for logging in.
After I logged in I saw a link at the bottom of the narrow column on the right, under MEMBER PROFILE, that said “Update Member Profile”. When I clicked on that link I got a lovely photo of Barbara dressed in purple, and under that was a section called “Subscriber Information”. In that section I clicked on the “edit contact information” link, which brought me to a page where I could change my username, password, email address etc. So now it’s all working exactly the way I want it to.
Not sure if this got posted in the right place. It was supposed to go in the thread where people were having login problems.
You have just done what I’ve always hoped someone would do: Explain how to do something in story form. I read it slowly and understood everything easily, and appreciated your effort. Now, the rest of my dream was to make cartoons or illustrations of what was happening in the story. I thought that there should be a whole line of instruction books on that model, and then everyone (or, at least the people who understand things better in story form) would understand everything. (Well, maybe not string theory or the topology of fiber bundles.)