🩵 Projectors We Love #2
Projectors We Love is a series introducing Human Design Projectors doing great things. Today, meet…
The wonderful Jade Fabienne
Jade Fabienne
📍 Barcelona
Splenic Projector
Artist, Musician & High Performance Consultant
📱 @jadefabienne_ | 💻 Website
Jade, if there was a TV show about your life, what would your theme song be?
Hard to choose. But I’d say Music On My Mind by Willie Smith. I feel it speaks about things in a playful and profound way – very difficult to do.
One thing you love, and one you loathe (or find challenging) about being a Projector?
Love: I absolutely love the fact that we’re not here to work like everyone else. As challenging as that still is to embody on certain days, my focus is sharp and I tend to get things done fast - often in half the time. I also love that we have an added layer of perception and can see things before others do.
Loathe: One thing I sometimes find challenging personally is my open root: I tend to feel an internal pressure to start and finish everything in one go - sometimes entire projects - which isn’t always sustainable or the best choice for the project itself.
You are an artist and consultant who works with high performers across sports and the arts. I personally have had the great pleasure of being alongside you on your path and witnessing your evolution for almost the past decade, and it has been a joy. Tell us a bit about how you’ve arrived here, and some of the stops along the way.
It comes from the different lives I’ve lived – especially as an artist, musician, and performer, and through years of deep personal work. All my experience and reflections on the creative process – its cycles, uncertainty, chaos, joy, and structure – sit at the core of my work.
At the same time, about 12 years ago, due to life circumstances, I had to start looking at myself in a deeper way which led me into a rabbit hole of coaching, workshops, seminars, books, and energy trainings. I immersed myself in all of it. It deepened my perception and gave me extremely concrete tools to support people.
At some point, the question became simple: Who do I want to help, and how?
I know the struggle of having to perform and deliver while navigating an overthinking mind, alongside external pressure around who you should be, how you should do it, and the pull of trends versus your own expression.
That’s where it became clear. Fellow artists and athletes who are highly trained but also walking on the tightrope of external validation and unnecessary noise. Lately I’ve been working with male high performers, looking at masculine and feminine dynamics to bring clarity, direction, and integrity to how they move and create. That’s where the shift happens.
Jade’s Human Design chart
One thing (of many) I adore about you is your eye for beauty. You have a gift for not just creation but curation. Watching your Instagram stories, to me, is like a mini break taking in a beautifully handpicked exhibition.
This is one of those instances where I don’t even need to see someone’s chart to know the Outer Vision is strong. Is this something you’ve always been aware of and/or have consciously cultivated over the years?
Thank you - it’s one of the most effortless parts of who I am. I grew up in a fashion family where all trips, focus, conversations at the dining table revolved around aesthetics. I was always surrounded by gorgeous art and fashion pieces, a huge fashion magazine collection dating back to 1970s and fabrics, everywhere.
As a teenager, a family friend told me, “I’ve never seen anybody look at a magazine the way you do. You observe something deeper than the page.” It’s been both inevitable, given my environment, and a conscious craving I’ve satisfied. I pick up on the frequency of images and share what feels true on a certain day. The eye, beauty, images take me to a different world and they’re true medicine to me - and it’s something that’s inextricable from me and my work.
Little Jade in one of her favourite places to be as a child: Her father’s office – a fashion designer with a huge vintage and rare book collection and an endless supply of markers, magazines and fabrics
Is there any particular moment or phase in your life you’d love to have a “do-over” with, knowing what you know now about your aura and design?
Yes: Being more discerning about job opportunities that eventually diminished me, and who I was surrounding myself with. If something consistently leaves you depleted, it’s not where you’re meant to build from.
Where do you turn for inspiration and activation?
Lately it’s been silence, sometimes walking around the city just observing, in awe. I tend to get ideas when I move my body and take care of it, and I’m also inspired by leaning into joy – especially the kind that connects me back to who I was as a teenager. I’m building a lot from that place right now.
Also, light, space, and architecture have a real effect on me; certain environments sharpen everything for me.
Jade in her element
You have a 2/4 profile – how do you interact with that aspect of your design in your work, and in your day-to-day?
I am more in touch with my 2. I have always loved my alone time and space and I love ‘hiding away’ and coming back with a finished product. I thrive creating in my space, all alone and rarely do public spaces. I also have a thing for privacy which I’m still gauging how to balance and I intuitively connect with people I love to catch up and get some mirroring.
«It’s quite splenic: The idea comes and I just need to trust it enough to document it.»
I’d love to know more about your creative process. From that first spark and impulse to the birth of a new creation – whether that is a piece of music or one of your gorgeous prints – what does that look like for you?
The healthiest way for me to create is quite splenic: I get the idea (usually I see it in my mind’s eye or hear words or melodies) and I immediately get it on paper or some tangible tool to document. It’s that simple – the idea comes, and I just need to trust it enough to document it.
If I do, it’ll start giving me more iterations of it. With my illustrations for instance, I will usually get the first idea and then a succession of variations that create a series. It’s extremely magical, understated and efficient. At the same time, I’m a firm believer that flow isn’t enough - structure is what carries the work through. Loving discipline, systems are paramount to support the process. Currently, I’m especially interested in the development phase - when things are chaotic and unclear. That’s where most people lose focus and I’ve learned to stay there and build from it.
One of her creations
When that non-sacral battery tends low… what do you do to decompress?
Lying down is a must – something about horizontal-ing just does it for me. I meditate, do fascia release (a game changer) and engage in things that nourish my most tender me, like talking to friends or spending time in spaces that feel luxurious, expansive and grounding. What never fails to recharge me is sitting in a quiet place – preferably in nature – while listening to specific songs that take me to a very soft, and safe place.
One piece of advice you’d like to give all Projectors:
Share what you see. What you think is obvious is premium to some. Also: Slow down.
Jade Fabienne in her studio in Barcelona