Cohorts

Cohorts are an opportunity to take a deeper dive into liberated theology, ethnic identity, and community. Our hope is to create a space of liberation, healing, and transformation while centering the lived experience of women of color, QWOC, and nonbinary folks.We provide two types of cohorts, shorter 6 to 8 week cohorts and longer cohorts that run for a year. 

Current Cohorts

We are currently running all three year long cohorts.

Applications for Fall 2025 will open in Spring 2025

Grown Ass Woman Cohort

This cohort is for WOC and non-binary folks over 30 who care about justice, want to find a way forward on the other side of deconstruction, and are longing for community with folks who get you.

We explore liberative theogies, WOC centered approaches to social justice, and building cross racial solidarity and community.

Liberated Together Spiritual Direction School

Liberated Together School of Spiritual Direction trains and empowers WoC/QWoC and non-binary folks to facilitate one-on-one and group spiritual accompaniment through a 9-month training program.

Asian American and Pasifika Cohort

This Cohort is for Asian American and Pacific Islander women and non-binary folks over 30. We explore liberative theologies, reclaiming cultural practices, racial justice work that centers our lived experience- all while building community, telling story, and eating good food.

How Cohorts Work

about

Cohorts are an opportunity to take a deeper dive into liberated theology, ethnic identity, and community. Our hope is to create a space of liberation, healing, and transformation while centering the lived experience of women of color, QWOC, and non-binary folks. We provide two types of cohorts, shorter 6 to 8 week cohorts and longer cohorts that run for 6 months to a year. 

Cohorts are an experience of hope, connection, and liberation. No matter what the cohort is about there are several common experiences.

  • The experience of being seen and believed

  • Connecting with others who understand your lived experience

  • An embodied experience of liberation

  • Hope

shorter cohorts

We’ve hosted cohorts for Asian American women/folks confronting anti-Blackness, for Black women exploring rest and renewal, and cohorts guided by our Badass Indigenous Grandmas inviting us into their stories and decolonizing our faith. These types of cohorts run for 6-8 weeks and meet online. 

longer cohorts

We also host longer cohorts that meet online for 4 to 6 months and then culminate with an in person retreat. These cohorts are focussed on building deep community, liberated theology, and sustainable approaches to justice work. We meet online and then gather in person. We have hosted a Grown Ass Woman Cohort for over 30 leaders that ran for a year and half and continues to meet of its own initiative, 2 cohorts for 20 something leaders, and a second Grown Ass Woman that ran for 6 months. 

Past Cohorts

Night Vision: A Cohort for Black Women

Cohort for Asian American Men

Decolonize with Badass Indigenous Grandmas

Grown Ass Woman Cohort

Year Long Cohort for Asian American Woman & Folks

Asian American Cohort

Luchadoras

Sparkle Squad: Twenty-Something BIWOC Leaders

General Cohort Testimonials

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!

I love the space to come as you are even if it’s a hot mess inside a dumpster fire! Turns out I’m not the only hot mess and these women will bring me to Jesus even if they have to carry me on their backs!

There is something sacred about women of color holding space for one another when life has left you tired and prickly.

Member of Grown Ass Woman Cohort

The Liberated Together cohort is what I always needed and wanted but did not know existed.

I am grateful for the women in this group who I could not see my life without. They are wise, genuine, compassionate, gracious, and funny.

I am grateful for a space where there is community, honesty, laughter, and support.

Member of Grown Ass Woman Cohort

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.

Member of Grown Ass Woman Cohort

I have felt seen, known, loved, and cared for in the fullness of who I am. What a gift to gather with others and feel safe enough to weep and laugh out loud.

Vodka is defective if you take 3 shots (in a row) and don't get a buzz.

Group chats are life-saving spaces for affirmation, lament, trash talk, and inspiring tik toks.

Member of Grown Ass Woman Cohort

I've learned more what it means to live authentically in my identities, I have gained a community of sisters that loves me for all of who I am, and I have been challenged to eliminate toxic influences and spaces in my life.

Member of Grown Ass Woman Cohort

In a year of uncertainty, rage, and calamity, when I've found myself flailing, this cohort of WOC has been not only a lifesaving buoy but has actually pulled me out of the damn water and onto safe, dry land. I didn't realize how unsafe, uncertain, and tenuous other group environments felt for me until I experienced the ease with which we interact, share, and support each other.

Member of Grown Ass Woman Cohort

This cohort has been a lifeline - a community of incredible women I can learn from, lean on, and laugh with. I'm not sure how I would have gotten through 2020 if not for Liberated Together.

Member of Grown Ass Woman Cohort

Erna is gifted, passionate, and speaks truth in everything she does. I am thankful that I know her and feel honored that I get to participate in her dream of Liberated Together.

I tell everyone about the gift it has been to be a part of Liberated Together, it is a needed and sacred space.

Member of Grown Ass Woman Cohort

Most of my education on systemic racism has been taught and discussed in classrooms, seminars or at work, which means these discussions are intellectualized and feel divorced from my faith, spirit, heart and body. The cohort experience and teachings is beginning to bring my understanding of anti-blackness and racism to my heart, spirit and body

Member of Cohort for Asian American Women

Readings from womanist theologians inspired me to get in touch with the stories of my own ancestors, to sit at my grandmother's feet and by doing so, learn how to be a better ancestor to my family.

Member of Cohort for Asian American Women