Summer Book Club

The Vital Spark: Reclaim Your Outlaw Energies and Find Your Feminine Fire by LISA MARCHIANO

During the summer chapter of our book club, we will spend six weeks exploring female individuation paths by reading Lisa Marchiano’s “The Vital Spark”. We will explore the notion of feminine spirit, a powerful life force that often remains buried under the burdens of our everyday responsibilities and the demands of the collective. We will reflect on how we can reignite that vital spark and connect to our fullest potential.

In preparation for each session, students will be asked to read approximately 40-45 pages each week. In addition, students will receive short prompts that will encourage them to actively engage with the text by taking notes of their experiences, journaling, drawing, etc. During our sessions, we will work in small groups of 3-4 people in Zoom breakout rooms as well as in the larger group together to reflect on the reading and discuss the prompts that students were working with at home prior to the session. Reading the chapters and working with the prompts in preparation for each session is a mandatory requirement for participation in this group. Please ensure that you can join us from a computer as breakout rooms don’t always work on the phone or other devices.

6 Sessions • July 7, 14, 21, 28 and Aug 4 & 11 2026