When a Client’s Presentation Is More
Complex Than First Appears

An advanced, highly practical workshop with Marek Urbanowicz for qualified Kinesiologists who want to assess stubborn, multi-layered presentations with greater clarity and confidence.

21-22 November 2026
CityNorth Hotel, MI, Co Meath

Marek Urbanowicz. MA. MAc. MBAcC. ICAK (UK)

Some clients do not present with one neat, isolated problem

Their pain may involve gait, pelvic mechanics and meridian imbalance. Their structural pattern may be influenced by emotions, digestion or an underlying endocrine sign. A correction may test strongly, yet fail to hold because another part of the picture has been missed.

These are the clients who challenge practitioners to look beyond separate techniques and ask a better question:

How are the different parts connected?

In this postgraduate workshop, Marek Urbanowicz will demonstrate how he approaches that question in practice. Using his continually evolving Elusive Protocol as a clinical framework, he will show you how he assesses a client from multiple angles, follows the relationships between findings and decides what to address next.  Marek will demonstrate how he observes, screens, assesses, prioritises, and responds when a client presentation is layered, persistent, or does not immediately fit a single pattern. The workshop revisits essential material, updates it with techniques and perspectives from Marek’s ICAK and acupuncture background, and gives participants substantial time to practise. The emphasis throughout is on clinical reasoning, integration, and practical application.

You will be encouraged to move beyond compartmentalised thinking – to see how posture, gait, muscle response, pelvic and rib-cage mechanics, meridian relationships, emotional patterns, digestion, and endocrine considerations can inform one another.

Move from compartmentalised knowledge to connected clinical reasoning

You may already know many of the individual muscles, tests, meridians and corrections covered in this workshop. The aim is not simply to add more techniques to your toolkit.

It is to help you see how your existing knowledge fits together.

You will explore the interplay between three broad areas:

  • Structure: including pelvis, sacrum, rib cage, diaphragm, gait and patterns of fixation or subluxation.
  • Electromagnetic and meridian factors: including advanced assessment, pain patterns, emotional relationships and the effect of excess meridian energy on structure.
  • Nutrition and chemistry: including digestion, gut factors, endocrine signs and the relationships between glands, muscles, meridians and emotions.

Rather than treating these as separate compartments, Marek will demonstrate how one finding can lead logically to another, helping you build a fuller picture of the client in front of you.

See how Marek works, then practise the thinking and techniques yourself

This will be a practical workshop built around demonstration, observation and workshopping.

Marek will introduce the assessment process he uses from the moment a client enters the room. You will see how he observes posture, movement and gait, how he screens and prioritises findings, and how he uses the Elusive Protocol to guide rather than restrict the session.

Live demonstrations with suitable complex or stubborn presentations will allow you to watch that reasoning unfold in real time. The emphasis will not only be on what Marek tests, but on why one finding leads him to investigate another area.

You will then have opportunities to revisit, apply and workshop the material, combining techniques you may already know with ICAK-informed updates and approaches that may be new to you.

Who this workshop is for

This postgraduate workshop is for KinesiologyZone Diploma Graduates who would like to refresh and extend their existing skills, particularly when working with complex client presentations or persistent patterns. It is especially suited to practitioners who want a clearer way to organise their assessment rather than simply add another list of isolated techniques.
The course assumes a working familiarity with the foundational material taught in the diploma. Marek will review key concepts where helpful, but the focus is on applying and connecting prior knowledge at a more advanced level.

Proposed workshop content

The final programme is being refined. Areas planned for inclusion include:

  • Marek’s top-ten clinical checklist
  • How he visually assesses, screens and begins working with a client
  • Categories and an in-depth look at the pelvis
  • Sacral wobble and PRT corrections
  • The rib cage, with particular attention to the first rib
  • Detailed diaphragm assessment and relevant acupuncture points
  • Gait mechanics and advanced meridian interaction
  • How meridian excess may contribute to structural patterns
  • New fixation patterns
  • The two-way relationship between emotions and meridians
  • Advanced meridian assessment, particularly in relation to pain
  • The hypertonic client
  • Advanced Injury Recall
  • Digestion, including the sphincter of Oddi
  • Gut bacteria, fungal and parasite considerations, with a brief introduction to the Lebowitz protocol
  • Less obvious hormone issues and relationships between glands
  • How chemical and endocrine signs can affect muscles, meridians and emotions

By the end of the workshop, the aim is
for you to be better able to:

  • Look at a client’s presentation from several connected angles rather than pursuing one isolated symptom
  • Recognise relationships between structural, meridian, emotional and nutritional findings
  • Use a repeatable framework without forcing every client through a rigid formula
  • Observe how an experienced practitioner prioritises tests and follows clinical clues
  • Refresh and deepen techniques you have previously learned
  • Apply ICAK-informed updates and new approaches within your existing practice
  • Approach complex or stubborn presentations with a broader perspective and a clearer next step.

Who this workshop is for

This is an advanced postgraduate workshop for qualified kinesiologists who already have a working foundation in muscle testing, meridians, structural assessment and relevant correction techniques.

It will be particularly relevant if you:

  • see clients with persistent or multi-layered presentations
  • sometimes find that a correction does not hold as expected
  • want to understand how experienced practitioners connect apparently separate findings
  • would value more live demonstration and supervised practical work
  • want to update and integrate your existing skills rather than collect disconnected techniques

About Marek Urbanowicz

Marek Urbanowicz, MA, MAc, MBAcC, ICAK (UK), has worked in full-time practice since 1979. His background spans traditional acupuncture, Systematic Kinesiology and decades of postgraduate study and clinical application.

He first encountered Systematic Kinesiology in 1980 through Brian Butler and later studied with Dr Sheldon Deal for more than ten years. He has taught at TASK in the UK, is a member of ICAK and has taught postgraduate workshops for KinesiologyZone since 2019.

Marek’s teaching is known for bringing breadth of knowledge back to practical clinical application. The Elusive Protocol reflects a working process he has used and continues to refine over many years in practice.

Bring the pieces together

Complex presentations do not always call for more techniques. Often, they call for a clearer way to connect what you are already seeing.

Join Marek for an advanced practical workshop designed to deepen your assessment, broaden your clinical perspective and help you understand how structure, meridians, emotions and nutrition may interact within the same client.

Open for Registration

This workshop is open to KinesiologyZone Diploma Graduates only

DATES:  21-22 November 2026 – CityNorth Hotel, M1, Co Meath

Full price: €350 for the two-day workshop

€299 – (save €51)

EB ends 28th September
Registration closes 9th October 2026

Book Your Place

Graduates: Earn 14 hours towards your ASK membership CPD requirement.

Cancellation Policy:

Any cancellation will attract a €25 admin fee.  Otherwise, 50% of the full course fee charged on cancellations received between 30 and 21 calendar days of the start date.  Regrettably, no refunds can be made 20 days before the start date of course.