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Monika Jakubiak is a designer and educator with three decades of international experience. Polish-born and UK based, she is the founder of the Be Creative Again online course. At the heart of her work is a simple belief: that everyone has a creative life worth nurturing — and sometimes they just need a little help developing it.

Monika honed her creative vision on the London fashion scene of the late 1990s and 2000s, working with designers such as Hussein Chalayan and Clements Ribeiro, and as a technician on the legendary MA Fashion Design course at Central St Martins under legendary Professor Louise Wilson — an experience that gave her an intimate, firsthand insight into how extraordinary creative talent is fostered and cultivated.

That insight has shaped Monika's vision as an educator. Drawing on her experience at Central St Martins and viewing it across a vast range of design practices and cultures, she appreciates that wherever you go, people are looking for essentially the same thing: a genuine creative outlet.

A design consultant  and developer of artisanal fabrics, Monika has worked with slow fashion brands and independent start-ups from Austin and New York to Warsaw and Rajasthan. She was a textile consultant with the iconic British brand TOAST, and collaborated with the ANOKHI brand and the Anokhi Museum of Block Printing in Jaipur. She is currently a design consultant at the Nila House initiative in Jaipur.

Monika's real passion is unlocking the creativity in others.

She has designed and delivered workshops across 17 countries, funded by institutions including the V&A, Tate Britain, and the European Parliament — reaching everyone from students at GEIDAI University of the Arts in Tokyo to small community groups in rural Poland. She currently mentors Art and Design students at UAL Central St Martins and is a visiting tutor at the Reykjavik School of Visual Arts. Wherever she works, the approach is the same: deep research, genuine curiosity, and helping people find and trust their own creative voice.

"Curiosity is the key to your creativity.”