Grown Ass
Woman Cohort

Community, Liberation, Healing, Joy

Applications Close August 17th, 2025

You deserve a spiritual home that honors your story, your questions, and your full self.

If you’re a woman of color over 30, chances are you’ve been carrying a lot—navigating leadership, family, faith, and justice work in a world that often doesn’t see or support you. You’ve likely held space for others while rarely being held yourself.

Maybe you’ve left a church community that no longer felt safe, but haven’t found anything that feels quite right. Maybe you’re rethinking what you believe, or feeling disconnected from Creator, and wondering how to reconnect in a way that feels liberative—not triggering. Maybe you’re just tired. Tired of doing so much, of translating your experience, of trying to figure it out alone.

This yearlong cohort is for you. It’s a space to untangle faith, reconnect with cultural roots, and imagine a way forward that’s healing and whole. It’s for women of color who want to lead from a place of rest, clarity, and authenticity—not exhaustion or performance.

Here, you’ll find community, laughter, deep story-sharing, and spiritual practices that feel like home. You’ll be surrounded by others who are asking the same brave questions—and walking toward liberation together.

You’re not too late. You’re not too complicated. And you don’t have to do it alone.

Come as you are. There’s room for you here

APPLY HERE

Journey together on the other side of deconstruction

A COMMUNITY THAT GETS YOU

Join a community of folks who are ready to find healing and nourishment in each other’s presence. Explore cross racial solidarity and sustainable approaches to social justice, beyond social media and beyond white centered approaches.

A FAITH THAT IS EXPANSIVE

Explore an authentic, embodied spirituality and reclaim cultural practices to reconnect with Creator. Where there is lots of permission to be curious and reclaim cultural practices that whiteness told us were sinful.

A THEOLOGY THAT LIBERATES

Learn frameworks and language that interpret and name what you’ve been experiencing. We know what we no longer believe, but this community is a space to workshop new ways of knowing.

Liberated Together creates a rare space for women of color where we can get support and honest feedback at the same time. It is enabling new generations of bad-ass women of color leaders in the church and in the world.

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What I really love about being in this cohort is having a space to be transparent and vulnerable to people who I don’t have to explain myself to!

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Cohort Facilitators

ERNA KIM HACKETT is a preacher, trainer, public theologian, and founder of Liberated Together. She is passionate about helping women and folks get free from the trauma of white heteropatriarchal Christianity and begin to move in embodied, healed, joyful ways.

Erna worked with college students in a white evangelical organization for 15 years, where she focussed on Black Campus ministries and Justice Programs. She received her Masters in Intercultural Studies from the Institute for Indigenous Theological Studies, which centered decolonized approaches to theology.

She moved to the Bay Are when she was invited to serve as Executive Pastor at the Way Christian Center in Berkeley.

Drawing from her experiences with the Institute for Indigenous Theological Studies, Black liberation theology, and the Korean immigrant church she seeks to build radical solidarities without erasing the unique experience of each community.

After launching Liberated Together in 2019 she helped found Liberated Together Spiritual Direction School the Fall of 2023- the school just graduated its first class.

Lenore is Oglala Lakota, born on Pine Ridge Reservation in South Dakota where her father, also Oglala, was born. Her mother is Minneconjou Lakota from the Cheyenne River Reservation, S.D.

Lenore earned her BA from Fort Lewis College in Durango, Colorado, and completed a federal civil rights career in Seattle, Washington. After she retired, she accepted a gubernatorial appointment to the Washington State Human Rights Commission. She then relocated to Spokane, WA to be a hands-on unci (grandmother) to her two takojas (grandchildren), and she earned an M.A. from Portland Seminary/George Fox University in Oregon.

Lenore speaks, writes, and teaches from a Native perspective on decolonizing theology and racial reconciliation. She is a cohort leader in “Decolonizing with Badass Indigenous Grandmas” (www.liberatedtogether.com). She has spoken nationally for Christian Community Development Association, Duke Reconciliation Center, and the Nevertheless She Preached Conference. She has contributed to various publications, including an award-winning article for The Covenant Companion Magazine; the Covenant Quarterly; and she co-authored a chapter in the book, “Reimagining Short-term Missions.”

The Cohort Experience

Your cohort will be a curated community with up to 10 women and non-binary folks ready to journey together. We will be over 30 and Black, Indigenous, Asian American, Latine, and other WOC and folks of color. Cohorts are open to all Non-binary folks of color who feel comfortable in a community that centers the lived experience of WOC.

The Cohort Commitment: Each cohort member commits to making attendance a priority, being fully present during gatherings, and setting aside 2 to 3 hours per week for reading, reflecting, and connecting.

Zoom Gatherings

This is where we begin building our community together. We gather weekly to explore liberative theologies, including womanist and indigenous worldviews, reclaim our stories, practice breath work, and try new spiritual practices in a space where we feel understood.

In-Person Retreats

Step away for four days where the focus is on hosting you so that you can focus on each other. You’ll leave with a renewed sense of hope after being well fed and building connection. All of this in a beautiful Airbnb with a hot tub, luxurious outdoor space, and plenty of room to exhale. (Photo of retreat location)

1:1 Coaching

As you close out your cohort journey, you’ll have the opportunity to meet one-on-one with Erna for several personalized coaching session designed to help you integrate what you’ve learned and take your next steps with intention.

These sessions are a space for you to reflect, process, and begin to chart your way forward—whether that’s within your work, faith community, activism, or personal life.

Time with an Elder

Over the course of the year we will benefit from the unique opportunity to have an elder walk with us on our journey. Lenore will teach, share story, and offer her wisdom to our community.

Many of us long for access to elders who have been on this road longer than we have, and whom we can seek out for wisdom. That will be one of the gifts of having Lenore journey with us for the year and be available during our retreat.

Cohort Details & Value

ZOOM GATHERINGS

Fall 2025 -Thursdays, starting Sept. 25 and ending Dec 4.

Weekly at 6pm Pacific/ 9pm Eastern

Spring 2026 - Weekly March 5- May 7.

6pm Pacific/ 9PM Eastern.

IN-PERSON RETREAT

February 19-22, 2026: Near Oakland , CA

1:1 Coaching

2-4 sessions with Erna in spring 2025

A $300 per session value

COST

$ 5,500

The cost reflects fall and spring online gatherings, 1 in person retreat, including airfare, and coaching sessions with Erna after the spring online sessions end. It is a deep investment in yourself, in connecting to community, and nourishing your soul.

PAYMENT OPTIONS

Each person makes a $500 non- refundable deposit to secure their spot. This counts toward the overall cost. After that you can choose between one time, quarterly, or monthly payments. And for some it is possible to pay for the cohort over 18 months.

One-time: $5,000- after $500 deposit

Quarterly: $1250 Four times- after $500 deposit

Monthly: $420 for 12 months- after $500 deposit

18 months: $280 for 18 months- after $500 deposit

SCHOLARSHIPS

We want this cohort to be accessible to as many people as possible and understand how systems of race, gender, and capitalism give us different access to resources. And so we work to offer scholarships when possible.
We also ask that cohort participants work to pay what they can and if connected to a home church or supportive organization to ask for financial support.

APPLY HERE