Lucinda Light set to shine a light on our emotional intelligence

Lucinda Light, star of the most recent series of Channel 4’s Married At First Sight Australia, has announced an intimate UK tour for this summer, with a Cambridge date included.

Lucinda will speak about her experiences as an expert in emotional intelligence (EQ), as well as what it was like appearing on Married At First Sight Australia – for which she was the ‘season 11 breakout star’.

Speaking to the Cambridge Independent via Zoom from her home, she said: “It will be about a 45-minute chat, really deep diving into emotional intelligence, and certainly everything I’ve learnt over the years in my accumulative experience – and it’s been a huge passion of mine.

“Then I think we’ve got an allotment of tickets for meet and greet, and so I’m very excited for that – I just want to meet as many people as possible.

“I lived in London for 18 months so it’s like a bit of a homecoming, in a way, a place that I’ve loved and lived and had a blueprint, so getting back there’s going to be so special.

“I just resonate with the UK people, just the humour and the lifestyle and all of that, so that’s sort of the heart and soul of what the talk’s about.”

Lucinda is a trained holistic counsellor and has been a practitioner “for many years, taking clients on and using somatic tools and all sorts of things”.

She describes herself as an “extreme extrovert” and notes that she is “deeply, deeply social”.

“I’ve travelled a lot, I was a tour leader for seven years, I love diversity, I love people – mum and dad have really bestowed that,” says Lucinda.

“The way I was raised was mum and dad had an art and craft barn, so people from all over the world [would visit] and then loads of interesting artists…

“So just being able to, I suppose, talk and understand and accept everybody for where they’re coming from.

“They’re just doing their best with the tools and the culture and the way they’ve been parented – so a lot of acceptance and enjoyment of the diversity.”

Lucinda, who worked as a tour leader all over the world for Intrepid Travel from “a really early age”, describes the “social experiment of going on this wacky television show” Married At First Sight Australia as a “huge test on all those levels of the training and the experience I’ve had”.

“It was a huge risk to go on and partake in an experiment like that; I did want a husband, I still do,” she reveals. “I’m definitely a bit of an entertainer and I love the myriad of things that come with an opportunity like that.

“But yeah, it was a wild social experiment in my life, that experience, and it was hard at times – sometimes it did bring out really challenged and challenging parts of myself.”

Lucinda says her overall experience of being on the show, however, was positive, noting: “The opportunities that are happening for me right now are beyond my wildest imaginings.

“Like the fact that I’m coming over to talk about a subject that I’m so passionate about to hundreds of people, in these beautiful old theatres all around your gorgeous continent, is just mind-blowing to me.

“It’s very humbling, it’s exciting, I’m so honoured – and these are all the fruits from that, so I’m deeply grateful for the experience and the opportunity that MAFS has given me.”

For those not familiar with it, Married At First Sight – often abbreviated as MAFS – is, according to the Channel 4 website, a “bold social experiment where single people, matched by experts, marry total strangers, who they meet for the very first time on their wedding day”.

To learn more about Lucinda’s time on the popular programme, and to hear what she has to say about emotional intelligence, come to the Cambridge Corn Exchange on Sunday, 27 October.

Tickets, priced from £23, are available from cornex.co.uk.

Due to popular demand, a previous date, at the Cambridge Junction’s J1 on Sunday, 11 August, has now sold out.

For more on Lucinda, go to lucindalight.com.