The Truth About Girls
A powerful experience helping girls understand themselves, build confidence and feel proud of who they are
Girls don’t lose their confidence overnight.
They slowly learn to dim their light.
A powerful interactive experience with Jackie Scott
After working with thousands of young people over more than 30 years, educator and RISE founder Jackie Scott has developed a unique insight into the inner world of girls.
Behind the confidence they often appear to show, many girls are quietly asking the same questions:
• Do my friends actually like me?
• Am I too much?
• Am I good enough?
• What if I fail?
• What do people really think of me?
These thoughts shape how girls see themselves, how they interact with others and how they approach challenges in school and life.
In The Truth About Girls, Jackie creates a powerful, safe and interactive environment where students explore the realities many girls experience but rarely say aloud.
Through honest storytelling, anonymous student insights and carefully designed interactive moments, Jackie helps girls understand something many of them have never realised before:
They are not alone.
“If your school invites one speaker for girls this
year — make it Jackie Scott”
This is not just a talk
The Truth About Girls is a powerful, interactive experience. Jackie creates a space where girls feel safe enough to open up, reflect and connect
• realise they are not alone
• begin to understand what they are feeling
• build confidence from within
• connect with each other in meaningful ways
Their brain is developing - not broken.
Through simple, relatable insights into how the teenage brain develops, girls begin to understand:
• why emotions can feel intense
• why they overthink
• why they feel judged
• why they compare themselves to others
What girls begin to understand
• they are not the only one who feels this way
• their thoughts and emotions are normal
• they don’t have to shrink to fit in
• they can build confidence from within
• they are already enough
The impact for your school
Schools consistently report:
• increased confidence and engagement
• stronger, more supportive friendships
• greater student voice and participation
• a shift from comparison to connection
• a more positive and inclusive culture
Confident girls create stronger school communities.
Tailored for every stage of girlhood
Foundation to Year 12
Younger girls are supported to build strong foundations in confidence, kindness and self-belief.
Tween and teen girls are guided through friendship pressure, comparison, identity, social media and academic expectations.
Belonging. Worth. Voice.
When girls feel accepted, understand their value and trust their voice, they stop shrinking — and start thriving.
When girls learn to stand proudly in who they are, they don’t just change their own lives. They change the culture around them.
Girls are often far harder on themselves than anyone else ever could be.
These sessions help students recognise their own strength, develop healthier perspectives and build cultures where girls support one another rather than compete.
The Truth About Girls framework helps schools create environments where girls:
feel safer speaking up
build stronger friendships
develop healthier self-worth
support rather than compete with each other
These outcomes directly support student wellbeing, engagement and positive school culture.
confident girls are more engaged, more connected and more likely to thrive within their school community
“You taught me how to love myself again.”
- Year 9 Student
“Your sessions are so deeply valued. The thought, care, and intentional approach you bring not only builds confidence in our young people but also helps them feel genuinely included and valued.”
- School Principal
"The impact was immediate. Our students felt seen, heard, and inspired to be their best selves."
- Head of Wellbeing
“You have changed my life forever”
- Year 12 Student
“It opened up so many important conversations between my daughter and I about confidence, kindness and being the best she can be.”
- Parent"I learnt that greatness is in all of us.”
- Grade 5 Student