
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.
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.
Name it. Break it. Swap it.
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.”
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.”
Every girl in that room was born creative. So were you.

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



