Creative Leadership Program

Many youth programs struggle to meaningfully engage young women, often relying on prescriptive structures that limit expression, agency, and ownership.

Without a sense of voice or creative control, engagement drops—and opportunities for genuine confidence-building and self-expression are lost.

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The Girls on Country: Creative Leadership Program offers a different approach.

Grounded in a participant-led methodology, the program creates the conditions for young women to lead their own creative process—developing ideas, shaping direction, and bringing their visions to life through supported facilitation.

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This is not a traditional workshop.

• Participant-led – young women drive the creative direction

• Agency-focused – builds voice, confidence, and ownership

• Creative outcomes – tangible outputs, not just participation

• Trauma-aware & safe – grounded in nervous system-informed practice

• Connection to Country – place-based, culturally grounded experience

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Delivered over four weeks, the program guides participants through a structured creative journey that begins with their existing world—drawing on contemporary culture, music, and social media as powerful entry points for engagement. Participants explore artists, rappers, singers, and online creators they find influential, using these references to spark discussion around identity, values, and self-expression. From these conversations, ideas take shape. Participants collaboratively develop concepts and creative direction, translating their influences into original works across multiple mediums, including music, fashion, visual art, performance, and digital content such as music videos and TikTok-style outputs. 

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Participants leave the program with increased confidence, self-expression, and a stronger sense of identity and voice, alongside real experience in leadership and collaboration. Through a fully participant-led process, young women create tangible creative outcomes—such as music, visual art, fashion, and digital content—resulting in a strong sense of ownership and pride in what they have produced.

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This program is designed for schools, youth organisations, community and cultural organisations, councils, and metropolitan mental health and youth services seeking meaningful, engaging approaches for young women aged 13–25. Delivered by an experienced facilitator with over a decade of experience working with First Nations youth, the program integrates creative practice with trauma-aware, strengths-based approaches to support genuine engagement and impact.

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