Formada Lisette set up Capoeira School Semente da Senzala in Haarlem in 2003. She has been playing Capoeira for eleven and teaching for seven years.

She received her Capoeira "Formada" title in 2008 from Mestre Sombra of the Associação de Capoeira Senzala de Santos, Brazil.

After completing her VWO at the Stedelijk Gymnasium in Haarlem, her BA (hons) Performance (Theatre) Management and her MBA (Generic Management), at the University of Leeds, she worked for several theatre and dance companies in the UK after which she moved for two years to Brazil to train Capoeira under Mestre Sombra, and teach English and German.

Formada Lisette is tri-lingual (Dutch, English, German) and speaks Portuguese. As she lived in England, Germany and Brazil, travelled a year through South America and Asia and also travelled around Europe, US and Russia, she has a profound first hand knowledge of what it is to encounter, live and work in other cultures. For her culture is a completely underestimated profound force of behaviour and therefore believes, should be taught to university students and business managers.

Having participated for ten years at gymnastic championships on Dutch national level, trained Kung Fu for four years until Brown Belt (and trained one month with the Shaolin Monks in China), and danced modern, classical ballet until RAD level intermediate for fifteen years, and recuperated from a motorbike accident where she broke her back, smashed her legs and spent a total of six months in a wheelchair, she literally has a large ‘body knowledge’ of creative movement.

As her studies at the University of Leeds also included cross-cultural management theory, Human Resource Management, and Strategic Management she can innovitively combine management theory or language teaching with (Capoeira) movement in any of her workshops.