Barcelona Chiropractic College Opens in October! - 5/9/2009

 Four years ago, a Dr. Adrian Wenban, a chiropractor who graduated from the Royal Melbourne Institution of Technology in Australia, but practices in Barcelona, Spain, decided that Europe needed “vitalistic” chiropractic college.  He reasoned that since there were currently only four “mechanistic” chiropractic colleges graduating DC’s to serve the 700 million people of Europe, this would be the perfect time to create a college that would feature chiropractic principles and philosophy as an integral part of the curriculum.

Now, four years later, and after all the exhausting and diligent effort, financial sacrifices, red tape, and standard bureaucratic posturing, his original concepts and visions are about to be transformed into reality.

The newly renamed Barcelona Chiropractic College (formerly called Schola Chiropratica Barcelona) plans to open its doors for 50 students on October 7, 2009.  So what started as one man’s dream will manifest into a reality in just a few short years.

Last week I journeyed to Mallorca, Spain where I was invited to be one of the Special Guest Speakers at a seminar for DC’s and students (350 in attendance), designed to share the chiropractic message and raise additional funds to support the new college.

This was one great looking group of people.  They hailed from Spain, Italy, Belgium, Portugal, the United Kingdom, France, Germany, Sweden, Ireland, Australia, South Africa, Amsterdam and The Netherlands and mostly all of these cosmopolitan people spoke at least two and often times three or more languages.  I will tell you that they were warm and wonderful, thirsty for information, and although we used simultaneous translation, they were in the game, playing full-out and they greeted the Americans, including me with open hearts and minds.

To be sure this audience was abundant with energy and they were certainly in love with Chiropractic Principle.  While I am not sure how much money was raised (probably between 250 and 300,000 Euros), I do know that the generosity of this audience will enable one of the local banks to provide student loans to the members of the incoming class.  In Spain, the curriculum leading to a DC degree takes five years.

And, thanks to people like Dr. Adrian Wenban and Dr. Marc Hudson, chiropractic is alive and well and will be living in Spain. I am thrilled that I was invited and I was emotionally moved by all the indefatigable effort of the countless numbers of volunteers.

So concept or idea, clarity of vision, massive and continuous action, great re-action to the adversities along the way, and time, really does equal the manifestation of your dreams.

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