Grown Ass
Woman Cohort

Co-create a way forward in a sacred space for WOC

You deserve a community where you can heal, grow, and learn to lead authentically.

You’re not making it up. Living at the intersection of white supremacy and heteropatriarchal Christianity, while navigating leadership and daily life is exhausting. You know what you no longer believe, and what you no longer want to be a part of, but are still searching for nourishing ways forward.

Perhaps you are feeling…

Lonely after leaving your church and are still looking for a safe spiritual community
Yearning to connect with Creator in ways that feel liberative instead of triggering
Stuck trying to figure out if you should to stay or leave toxic organizations or community

You’re not alone. Journey and share story with women and non-binary folks of color who’ve also been holding out hope for a way forward.

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

Meet your guides who went through it and are on the other side

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.

REV. RIANA SHAW ROBINSON is a preacher, pastor, and prophet. Riana is passionate about speaking the truth in love, offering a constant invitation for people to see themselves as beloved, and providing various ways to respond to the command to love God, self, and neighbor.

Riana is the Birthing Pastor of Miriam's Song Church - a community that centers the healing, wholeness, and flourishing of women and non-binary folks of color guided by the divine liberation embodied in Jesus. She preaches at churches throughout the Bay Area with an invitation to love God, self, and neighbor.

Riana is ordained as a Minister of Word and Sacrament in the Reformed Church in America. She holds a Masters of Divinity from Pacific School of Religion and a B.A. in Ethnic Studies from Mills College.

The Cohort Experience

Your cohort will be a curated community with up to 15 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 colors. 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

Coaching sessions with Erna will help you think practically about how to integrate what you’re learning, whether that be at work, at church, or in general. Sessions will be shaped by your priorities in this season. Some topics you might explore in coaching are: learning to lead out of your values, navigating predominantly white spaces, and healing from internalized white supremacy, patriarchy, or homophobia.

1:1 Spiritual Direction

Connecting with the divine can be difficult in this season. Spiritual direction with Riana will help you find connection with your sacred self and Creator. Together, you and Riana will decide what kind of space you need in order to be deeply present and what kind of practices may be helpful to supporting your as you explore connection to Creator.

Cohort Details & Value

ZOOM GATHERINGS

Fall 2024 -Thursdays, starting Sept. 26 and ending Dec 12.

Weekly at 6pm Pacific/ 9pm Eastern

Spring 2025 - Weekly Feb 27- May 1.

6pm Pacific/ 9PM Eastern.

IN-PERSON RETREATS

February 6-9 2025: Near Oakland , CA

July 24-27 2025: Near Oakland, CA

Flights Included in Cohort Cost

1:1 Coaching

2-3 sessions with Erna in spring 2025

A $300/hour value, included

1:1 SPIRITUAL DIRECTION

2-3 sessions with Riana in spring 2025

A $150/hour value, included

COST

$ 6,600

The cost reflects fall and spring online gatherings, 2 in person retreats, including airfair, and spiritual direction and coaching sessions with Erna and Riana in the spring. It is a deep investment in yourself, in connecting to community, and nourishing your soul.

PAYMENT OPTIONS

Each person makes a $600 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: $6500

Quarterly:: $1500 Four times

Monthly: $500 for 12 months

18 months: $340 for 18 months

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 with a home church, ask their churches to help them participate in the cohort.