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Born Creative Workshops
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This October, we took Born Creative into MECCA stores, running workshops in Perth, Adelaide, Sydney and Auckland, and to MECCAVERSITY in Melbourne for a full-day summit on International Day of the Girl.
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Through workshops, 500 teenage girls remembered what most of us forget by adulthood: we were all born creative.

Protecting that creativity helps girls build confidence and think in ways no algorithm can.¹

The World Economic Forum ranks it among the top four skills of the future.²

 

¹ MECCA commissioned research, conducted by Ipsos, March 2026. Base: n=2,000 nationally representative Australian women aged 16+, Australia.
² World Economic Forum Future of Jobs Report 2025.
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Through workshops, 500 teenage girls remembered what most of us forget by adulthood: we were all born creative.

Protecting that creativity helps girls build confidence and think in ways no algorithm can.¹

The World Economic Forum ranks it among the top four skills of the future.²

 

¹ MECCA commissioned research, conducted by Ipsos, March 2026. Base: n=2,000 nationally representative Australian women aged 16+, Australia.
² World Economic Forum Future of Jobs Report 2025.

Name it. Break it. Swap it.

Every girl wrote the biggest barrier to her creativity on a tile – then smashed it. She handed a piece to someone else and took one in return. Then the fragments became something new: mural panels built from broken tiles, each one made from what used to stand in the way. Mess, it turns out, really is the method.
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Name it. Break it. Swap it.

Every girl wrote the biggest barrier to her creativity on a tile – then smashed it. She handed a piece to someone else and took one in return. Then the fragments became something new: mural panels built from broken tiles, each one made from what used to stand in the way. Mess, it turns out, really is the method.
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Notes from the room.

Who is your creative icon? What makes someone creative?

The board filled up with answers, and the conversation carried on afterwards.

One girl came along alone, worried about feeling out of place. “As soon as I walked in I felt welcomed.” Another said the day “healed something inside of me I didn’t know or expect to be there.”

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Notes from the room.

Who is your creative icon? What makes someone creative?

The board filled up with answers, and the conversation carried on afterwards.

One girl came along alone, worried about feeling out of place. “As soon as I walked in I felt welcomed.” Another said the day “healed something inside of me I didn’t know or expect to be there.”


Born Creative, as it happened
Told by the girls who took part, the facilitators from The Flourish Journey, and the MECCA team who were in the room.
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Every girl in that room was born creative. So were you.

Explore the MECCA Methods for Creative Thinking, and start turning yours back up.

Every girl in that room was born creative. So were you.

Explore the MECCA Methods for Creative Thinking, and start turning yours back up.
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