Grown Ass
Woman Cohort

Community, Liberation, Healing, Joy

Applications Open Soon

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Very few spaces are truly FOR us.

Many places love our labor.

Very few spaces LOVE us.

This cohort is FOR us.

Critique and deconstruction were a first step. We know what we're done with. Now we need room to grow something new. Something that calls us back to our ancestors and cultures in a way white deconstruction never could.

This is a 6 month cohort for women and folks who are done just critiquing and ready to explore and experiment new ways forward. A curated community built around stories, connection, and liberative practices. Together, we will explore new ways to tell our stories, reclaim the Bible, reconnect with ancestral roots, and bring our ethnicity, our value for justice, and our longing for liberative spirituality into one place.

Whether you identify as Christian or are still figuring out what to do with the Christianity that shaped you, this space is for you.

You're not too late. It’s not too complicated. You don't have to do it alone.

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

If you're a woman of color, non-binary or trans POC over 30 this community is for you.

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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 Facilitator

ERNA KIM HACKETT is a preacher, public theologian, and founder who has spent her career building spaces of healing, justice, and liberation for women of color.

Raised in the Korean immigrant church, Erna spent 18 years in a white evangelical college ministry, focused on Black Campus Ministries and social justice programs. In 2018, she moved to Berkeley to serve as Executive Pastor at The Way Christian Center, a historically Black, justice-focused church rooted in the Black Liberation and Pentecostal traditions.

She founded Liberated Together in 2019 with the Grown Ass Woman cohort, expecting it to stay a side project alongside her pastoral work. She left her pastor role in 2020. She posted on Facebook asking if any Asian American women wanted to join a cohort examining anti-Blackness in their own communities. Over 100 women applied. That was the moment Liberated Together became her full-time work.

Erna holds a Master's in Intercultural Studies from the Institute for Indigenous Theological Studies, where she deepened her understanding of Indigenous worldview and decolonial frameworks. She draws on that study, Black liberation theology, and her own Korean immigrant church upbringing to build radical solidarity across racial lines without erasing what makes each community distinct.

In 2023, she launched the Liberated Together Spiritual Direction School. And in 2026 she created the limited run podcast Rethinking Israel, Palestine, and the Faith that Formed Us- as a resource to help evangelicals wrestle honestly with Scripture, history, and justice towards liberation for Palestinians.

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 share stories, explore embodied practices, and try new spiritual practices in a space where we feel understood. Together, we reread the Bible and its stories through folktales and the wisdom of our cultures.

In-Person Retreat

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 a personalized coaching session designed to help you integrate what you’ve learned and take your next steps with intention.

Community

There's a particular kind of exhale that happens when you don’t have to explain yourself. We don’t need to agree on everything, but we hold a tender and generous space for each other. You don't have to defend your questions here, or perform certainty you don't feel.

Plus we eat great food and have a lot of fun.

Cohort Details & Value

ZOOM GATHERINGS

Fall 2025 -Thursdays, starting October 1 and ending Dec 10, 2026.

Weekly at 6pm Pacific/ 9pm Eastern

Spring 2026 3 gatherings post in person retreat. Those will be scheduled together as a cohort.

IN-PERSON RETREAT

Feb 18-21, 2027- Near Oakland , CA

1:1 Coaching

A Coaching session with Erna in spring 2027

A $300 per session value

COST

$ 3,200

The cost covers fall online gatherings, 1 in person retreat February 2027, including airfare, several post retreat gatherings, and a coaching session with Erna after the spring online sessions end.

This cohort is a deep investment in yourself, in connecting to community, and nourishing your soul.

PAYMENT OPTIONS

Each person makes a $400 non- refundable deposit to secure their spot. This counts toward the overall cost. After that you can choose between one time, three time, or monthly payments.

One-time: $3,100 ( $100 discount for making one time payment)

Three Payments: $934 three times- after $400 deposit

Monthly: $460 for 6 months- after $400 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.

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