Every few months a pastor asks me to help start a women's class. The ones that hold have three things settled before the first meeting. The ones that fade usually skipped one.
Who is the class for, specifically? Not “the women of the church.” A class for women who have just said a hard thing out loud is different from a class for women who have been serving for twenty years and are tired. Pick one. You can run the other one next.
Who holds the room when it gets honest? A women's class works when somebody says the true thing and nobody flinches. That takes a leader who has done her own work and will not rush to fix. If that leader is not in the room yet, train her first. That is most of what I do with churches.
What is the one step each week? Teaching without a step becomes a lecture. Every meeting should end with one honest, small, specific thing each woman will do before the next one — and the group should ask about it, kindly, when she comes back.
Settle those three and the class will hold. If you want to talk through your specific room, a 20-minute program call is the fastest way.