1.
Engaging Vitality – Follow Up Class – Barcelona 2016 *
Engaging Vitality, Barcelona, 2016
With Charles Chace
The Eighth Listening Post.
This year’s meeting in Barcelona we be an introduction to application of the Engaging Vitality
palpatory techniques to the head. This will serve both as a context for reviewing all of the
palpation techniques that you have been exposed to thus far, and as preparation for Dan
Bensky’s new class on the cranium. We will review listening with the proper quality of touch,
and take a more nuanced look at the yang rhythm and the fluid tide as it relates to cranial
biodynamics. We will also attend to more precisely identifying the depth of local listenings
anywhere on the body by learning to distinguish between findings in the cranium, the
membranes, and the brain itself. Finally we will see how palpatory findings on the head can be
integrated into an overall treatment strategy.
As always, the Barcelona class is structured to accommodate all levels of competence with the
Engaging Vitality palpatory repertoire. Those eager for new material will have plenty to work
with, and there will have ample opportunity for those primarily interested in refining their core
skills.
I hope to see you there.
Chip Chace

2.
Engaging Vitality – Follow Up Class – Barcelona 2016 *
Barcelona Syllabus
Sunday, 02/October/2016
Day 1 Morning Topic – Content Outline
9:00-9:30 Introduction and Questions
9:30-10:30
Practice Set 1
Negotiating contact -Review of Techniques
10:30-11:30
Practice Set 2
Vault Hold and the Yang Rhythm on the Cranium
What do your hands do?
11-30-11:45 Break
11:45-12:00 Discussion
12:00-13:30
Practice Set 3
Layer palpation on the Thorax and Abdomen
13:30-15:00 Lunch
Day I Afternoon Topic – Content Outline
15:00-15:30 Discussion
15:30-16:30 Structural and Energetic Anatomy of the Cranium
16:30-17:00
Practice Set 4
Layer Palpation of the Cranium
17:00-17:15 Break
17:15-18:30
Practice Set 5
Non Local Treatment of Cranial Findings

3.
Engaging Vitality – Follow Up Class – Barcelona 2016 *
Monday, 03/October/2016
Day 2 Morning Topic – Content Outline
9:00-9:30 Discussion
9:30-10:30
Practice set 6
General and Local Listening with Attention to Depth.
And direction of transient opening
10:30-11:00 Discussion
11:00-11:15 Break
11:15-11:30 Creating a Neutral Environment
11:30-13:00
Practice set 7
Full Repertoire of Techniques
Integration
13:00-14:30 Lunch
Day 2 Afternoon Topic – Content Outline
14:30-15:00 Discussion
15:00-16:00
Practice set 8
Open Practice Set.
Participants practice at whatever level they are at.
Those who are ready will more directly engage the principles of
Midline Dynamics
And Ignition Break
16:00:-16:15 Break
16:15-17:00: Chip Treats a patient
17:00-17:30 Discussion

4.
Engaging Vitality – Follow Up Class – Barcelona 2016 *
PLAN B The Eighth Listening Post
Monday, 03/October/2016
Day 2 Morning Topic – Content Outline
9:00-9:30 Discussion
9:30-10:00
Demonstration of Quality of Contact for Appreciating the Cranium
Vault Hold – appreciating YR And torsions
Listening into the Vault for End Feel -Barral Style
Local listening on the Cranium
10:00-10:30
Practice set 6
No needling
11:15-11:30 Creating a Neutral Environment
11:30-12:30
Practice set 7
Incorporate Cranial Listening into skill set of EV techniques
Treat non-locally based on findings
Reassess all findings
If no change, treat locally
12:30-13:30 Lunch
Day 2 Afternoon Topic – Content Outline
13:30-15:00
Practice set 8
Open Practice Set.
Participants practice at whatever level they are at.
Those who are ready will more directly engage the principles of
Midline Dynamics
And Ignition
15:00-15:15 Break
15:15:-15:45 Discussion
15:45-16:30 Chip Treats a patient
16:30-17:00 Discussion