Lucinda Herring completed her Waldorf Kindergarten training in England with Margret Meyerkort in 1982, and started a Waldorf kindergarten in Oxford by celebrating the festivals with parents and young children. Inspired by the power of festival making and storytelling to build sustainable, creative community, and guided by an inner calling to make the cycle of the year a spiritual path, Lucinda has devoted the past eighteen years to helping others become artists and festival makers, in service to Earth and Spirit. As Director of The Festival Guild, Lucinda has created school and community festivals, developed a year round ‘circle of learning’ class called Living a Spiritual Year, teaches seasonal workshops, poetry writing, festival and faery classes, and summer arts camps for children. She is also a gifted storyteller and writer, and is active in the field of children’s literature as an annotator for Chinaberry Books, Inc. In response to an overwhelming request from people that she begin writing her stories, teachings and experiences down, Lucinda is now concentrating on this project, so many more people can benefit from her work. One of her chief aims is to nurture the power of song and storytelling in people’s lives, and to create original festival stories and poetry for the children. The Festival Guild on line is part of this new and exciting stage in her work.

Lucinda has one daughter, Eliza, who is eighteen now, and grew up celebrating every festival imaginable, and feeling completely at home in the seasons and natural rhythms of life. Eliza is an environmentalist and a wonderful musician and artist for hope and change in the world. She says living and breathing the festivals so long has helped make her who she is. She hopes every child can know what it is like to grow up living a festival life!

About Lucinda from Others . . .

Lucinda has "a unique gift as a teacher within the Anthroposophical stream. She makes Steiner's wisdom accessible to all in a manner that is lived and breathed and celebrated." In the course of my year with Lucinda…I have discovered powerful integration of my artistry, my faith and the rhythms and seasons of the Earth. I feel that the health of the Waldorf Community would be greatly enhanced if we could bring a fuller level of consciousness and creativity to the festival life of our school….I urge you to support the ongoing sharing of her work with the Waldorf communities…."
Betsey Beckman - Waldorf parent and Festival Committee member

I enjoyed (The Festival Guild) very much as a new Waldorf parent on a steep learning curve… The children's stories, poems, and verses were nice and my 6 year old enjoyed many of them… Thanks for sharing your knowledge and talents and love of nature with us and reminding us to celebrate throughout the year and be grateful for the gifts all around us.
Kris Rodden - new Waldorf school parent

"My daughter and I always look forward to our festival mailings. She is delighted by Lucinda's stories. I especially appreciate the thoughtful journal questions, and the opportunity to map the events and ebb and flow of my life alongside earth's own. We've found plenty of inspiration and practical suggestions for crafting our own celebrations, and our deepening understanding and connection with the earth and her cycles with each festival we honor has been pure magic. Lucinda is a wondrous guide--poetic, learned, and compassionate!"
Jane Valencia - Homeschooling parent and Festival Guild member

Lucinda' s deep well of festival wisdom has sprinkled its holy water on the dry spells on my life. When I read her stories and contemplate her questions, I feel inspired, and I smile in remembering how intimately connected I am to the breathing of the earth and the festivals that celebrate it. The offerings in her Festival Guild contain a sort of immediacy that brings the festivals directly home, to our own kitchens, living rooms, and gardens, to refresh our lives. Through this work with the festivals, our humanity can be recovered, and we can remember the joy of being a person, …a woman!, a teacher!
Robyn Jones - teacher at Whidbey Island Waldorf School

Lucinda is truly a bride of the seasons, a devoted and skilled festival maker and an inspiring guide. The Festival Guild serves as a rich resource, sharing valuable insight and rich experience and providing practical applications, inviting one to make the festivals one's own.
Mary O'Kane - Faculty member, Sound Circle Teacher Training, Seattle