Where does a Scanner find other Scanners?

At a book club! (Sound of hand hitting my own forehead). 

I'm writing this on September 1, 2014. 

Who knew back in '08 that the first book club (it was for I Could Do Anything If I Only Knew What It Was) would be so incredible. I was blown away at the depth of understanding members got from doing the exercises together, and the warmth and support that developed over the 16 weeks of that first book club.

That's why I decided the second book club should be about Refuse to Choose:

Scanners are too often alone.

There are places to meet online, I'm happy to say. Facebook is great, and so is my bulletin board (for meeting Scanners, that is) - and LinkedIn and more.

But the 6-day retreats I ran in Greece, Italy and France, where Scanners could really get to know each other, and discuss over long days for almost an entire week the difficulties faced by all Scanners and all people with lots of interests, lots of curiosity and creativity and intelligence are no more. So many of the people who attended them - from 2006 until 2013 - have stayed lifetime friends.

But now, 6 years later, my age and health won't let me run them anymore.

So Where does a Scanner find other Scanners? Ho ho!!! At this book club!!

That's why I'm so excited about the book club! (I'm driving Patty crazy sending announcements before the links are ready!)

You're going to meet other Scanners on a deeper level than you could anywhere else, and you'll be solving your own problems, getting your questions answered, finding out how to wrangle all those interests and talents, worries and difficulties. You'll know like you haven't realized before that you are all right, better than all right. You'll find the people who 'get you.' Why? Because you'll be doing all the Refuse to Choose exercises with them, you'll be commenting and replying to each other, and having discussions right on the page.

And you'll be doing it for 16 weeks.

And you'll spend (including travel and tuition) about 100 times less money than it took to come to a retreat.

You're going to know these people by the time you complete the Refuse to Choose Book Club.

Isolation is the dreamkiller, and Scanners are so often alone. That's got to stop.

It's 7pm on September 1, 2014. If you're on my mailing list,  look for the newsletter that will sent you to the site -- any minute.

If you have any problems, come over to barbarasclub.com and holler!

(I'm still waiting to see if I can get notified when you leave a comment on this blog!)

Hi guys. I've missed you.

:-)