Lisbon · International
Creative Strategist & Communications Specialist | Facilitator | Cultural Producer | Programme & Experience Design
Jaime Alexandra Mears
My work has always been about people.
How we communicate. How groups function. How ideas gather momentum. How trust is created. How people learn. How something that doesn’t yet exist gets made.
Improvisation Workshop · Solyanka Contemporary Art Gallery · Russia
Background
Different worlds. The same underlying practice.
For over twenty years, I’ve worked across creative practice, education, facilitation and cultural production. I make programmes and experiences that bring people together and turn possibility into action.
Where I Work
Communication & Presence
Verbal and non-verbal communication: story, body, tone, rhythm, listening, presence and what happens between the words.
Facilitation & Group Intelligence
I design participatory experiences for diverse groups, working with trust, energy, collaboration, resistance and the intelligence already present in the room.
Improvisation & Imaginative Capacity
I use improvisation to build responsiveness, expand possibility, disrupt habitual thinking and help people act creatively inside uncertainty.
Learning & Experience Design
I create workshops and learning journeys that people actively experience, not simply consume.
Cultural Production & Making Things Happen
I take ideas from concept to reality, bringing together people, places, communication, logistics and creative decisions.
Selected Work
Core Facilitator · Guest Teacher · Educational Design Consultant
Experiential learning for leaders, entrepreneurs and multidisciplinary groups.
Founder · Cultural Producer
Intimate participatory experiences in unconventional Lisbon spaces.
Selected collaborations
Evolution.new · Rote Nasen · Danske Hospitals Klovne · CliniClowns · NIDA · ESTC · MONO BOX · Red Nose International
Work delivered across Europe, Australia, Russia, Canada and the US.
Some capabilities are difficult to learn from a textbook.
Reading the room
Making complexity accessible
Working with uncertainty
Creating participation
Connecting disparate worlds
Getting things into the world
Ruby Moon · Sydney Theatre Company · 2007 · Photo: Tracey Schramm
Creative Practice
Before any of this came professional theatre.
Trained at NIDA and École Philippe Gaulier, I’ve worked internationally as a performer, director, theatre educator and creative practitioner—across projects, performances and workshops.
It trained me in sensitivity, flexibility, presence, resourcefulness and brute courage.
I’m interested in what happens between people.
Every Brilliant Thing · Mente de Cão Theatre Company · Beth Freitas
Jaime began her professional life in Australia, is now based in Lisbon and works internationally with people, projects and organisations in motion.
Based in Lisbon · Working internationally · English + Portuguese
Selected Background
NIDA
Bachelor of Dramatic Art
École Philippe Gaulier · Paris
Two-year professional training
Churchill Fellow
Evolution.new
Core Facilitator · Educational Design Consultant
Secret Theatre Lisbon
Founder · Cultural Producer
Accredited Professional Trainer
I like projects at the moment something begins to move.
If you’re building something new, rethinking something old or bringing people together around an idea, I’d like to hear about it.
Let’s talk ↗
jaimemears@gmail.com
WhatsApp · +351 939 063 186
Secret Theatre Lisbon
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