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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Dear Barbara,
I just realized that I sent a few letters to webmaster instead for you)))
so I duplicate one here)
Once again THANK YOU VERY MUCH for this conference!
It was unbelievable nice to hear your voice and to listen what you are thinking and saying! And I love your sense of humor!)
And Thank you everybody who was here in the middle of my night and one special Thank who said Hello in Russian (Zdravstvuite) It was so unusual and nice! And you know about our lake Baikal! Thank you from my heart for everything!!! I wish to express all my thoughts and feelings but without long practice in English it was a little bit hard (for first time)))
So I didn’t understand everything in the very beginning))) But I’m glad that I understood the rest 1 hour and 15 min)))))))))
Everything what I’m reading and doing with your help is exactly what I need now.
So once more Huge Thank You and Thank the Universe that you, your books and Hanging Out have appeared in my life)
Olya
Hi Barbara,
loved this relaxed and very casual Skype conversation. Next time might even gather courage and make a comment or ask a question ;). This “Silent Scream” feels like a very useful tool, as I also have problem with crying.
Also the advice, to think first – How can I get what I want without money? Creative approach. Makes you instantly realize how limitless are the possibilities and the only limits are in your own head. I like it a lot.
Looking forward to the next time
All best
Regina
Would love to hang out with you, as I still dream of “refusing to choose,” but I need to make an extra 200 first. Just bought your “wishcraft” book at a sale, what I read in it was great!!!! Thanks!
Hey, Everybody! “It’s good to be with ya!”
I am so glad my friend mentioned your book, WishCraft to me this morning.
I am also glad it is free on the internet. I am absorbing everything that you talk about. I have some pretty great goals and one day hope to get there. I am a therapeutic riding instructor and would like to offer a womens program confidence building. I am also thinking about designing a web page to offer webinars on different teaching techniques and tips for riding instructors. I can’t sign up for your club yet as I don’t get my Social Security until 2014. I am on my own ( lost my husband this past summer) so I must be careful. I just wanted to say that I am so excited to find you. I don’t mind waiting a year and will be reading your book and appling it in the mean time.
I’m going to spam a little, because I want to make sure nobody here or on the “Hanging Out” board who’s interested in this or feels like they could profit from it misses this thing which is happening right now:
http://socialmediaweek.org/newyork/
It’s going on in NINE cities simultaneously. It was happening in even more cities than that in September (and I’m feeling more than a little stupid that I didn’t know about it then). It’s as much about global connection as Barbara’s Success Teams . 🙂
They have panels like “How to Leverage Your Social Media Profile into a Job” (that’s not the exact title, but that was the gist of what I remember when I skimmed last night; I’ve been reading about this for hours).
There are also some panels/events being livestreamed, so you don’t even have “having to spend money or leave your couch” as an excuse not to attend if this is something you’re interested in.
And it’s going on all week! (And no, I don’t work for any of the sponsoring/umbrella organizations — just now that I’ve found out about it I wish I did *sigh*.)
Hope everyone who is interested gets a chance to participate!
Hi Barbara,
Regarding HANGING OUT – Will your 3x per week comments & exercises be individual / personal to me? Or what u send to everyone in the group?
I went through your book 14 years ago I COULD DO ANYTHING.. and it was instrumental in helping me makie a significant change in my career. I’m now seeking something again – both personally & professionally.
Will this give me the personal feedback (from you) that I’d like?
Look forward to hearing from you.
Thanks,
Jennifer
While Barbara often replies to questions in the comments on Hanging Out, the messages she sends each week are the same for all. It sounds like what you’re looking for right now is a Success Team (SherSuccessTeams.com).
I live in Cazenovia NY. The Syracuse Success Team leader doesn’t do them anymore.
I had a similar experience many years ago… with another organization. Start your own success team, you will reap the same, if not better results.
How do current members sign up for another year?
Henrietta Wolf
Hi Barbara,
I sooo very much wish to subscribe to HO, but on a fixed income below the national poverty level… well, it’s embarrassing to be unable to afford such a reasonably priced program of incredible value. I notice there is a box for coupon codes and I was wondering where one might find a coupon code?
Sincerely,
Marjori
Coupon codes appear from time to time in Barbara’s newsletter. See the Contact page to put your name on the mailing list.
I’ve been on HO since the beginning and absolutely LOVING it (even though I haven’t been able to to read the posts on the same day or to comment as regularly as I would like – life takes over but am sure to check in and read/listen to/watch the posts and read the comments after the fact and whenever I can possibly get to them)!! I so appreciate all the richness and wisdom of Barbara and fellow members. Which brings me to my question: I would love so much to be able to refer back to these posts from the whole year at a future time. Will there be a way to have this material stay accessible to members for future reference once the program ends?
It will remain available after your subscription expires. You can find the list of links to all the messages you have received to date on http://barbarasclub.com/hangingout
Thank you!