Forthcoming · Companion Workbook
When the Body Speaks
A place to read slowly, notice what rises, and write it down.
Publications
Books & Resources
Published and forthcoming work from Still Point Practice, including the memoir, companion resources, teaching editions, journals, discussion guides, and facilitator materials.
Conflict, Illness, and the Quiet Work of Healing follows the human and intellectual origins of the work: the questions that surface when conflict, belonging, identity, and the body can no longer be treated as unrelated.
The research asks what can be examined systematically. The distinction matters. Personal narrative can open inquiry; it does not by itself establish a general claim.
View the book on Amazon ↗Key ideas
What the book holds.
Conflict can end in the room while continuing inside a person.
Belonging is not a slogan. It is the safety to tell the truth without losing one’s place.
Strength is not endurance without end. It is alignment with what is true.
Healing can be relational, not merely medical.
The publishing imprint
Still Point Practice Publishing
Still Point Practice Publishing is the publishing imprint of Still Point Practice. It develops companion and original resources for reflection, discussion, teaching, and facilitation.
When the Body Speaks was published by Innovative Ink Publishing. The forthcoming titles below are being developed for publication under Still Point Practice Publishing.
Still Point Practice Publishing · Forthcoming · Track A
Companion Resources for When the Body Speaks
Three forthcoming companions are being developed to help readers reflect, discuss, and facilitate thoughtful engagement with the memoir. Availability details will be shared when each resource is ready.
Forthcoming · Discussion Guide
When the Body Speaks
A deepened guide for reading alongside Still Point Practice research.
Forthcoming · Facilitator Guide
Leading When the Body Speaks
Guidance for holding the ground this specific book asks readers to stand on.
Cover designs and publication details may continue to be refined before release.
Still Point Practice Publishing · Forthcoming · Track B
Still Point Practice Publications
This forthcoming collection develops the Still Point Practice teaching system for individual reflection, difficult conversations, group discussion, facilitation, and reading across the memoir and the framework.
Forthcoming · Teaching Edition
Where Belonging Meets the Body
A Still Point Practice teaching edition grounded in When the Body Speaks, for classrooms, leaders, and communities.
Forthcoming · Personal Journal
Personal Practice Journal
Thirteen practices for the reader who wants to try this, not just read about it.
Forthcoming · Practice Playbook
The Script Playbook
A practical guide to thirteen difficult-conversation formulas.
Forthcoming · Discussion Guide
A Discussion Guide
Fewer questions, chosen across the whole book, for reading and talking through slowly.
Forthcoming · Host Companion
A Light Companion
Optional support for whoever hosts a Still Point Practice discussion.
Forthcoming · Facilitator Guide
Leading Still Point Practice
Practical preparation and language for the room, held beside the book rather than instead of it.
Forthcoming · Paired Reading Guide
Reading Them Together
Seven themes where When the Body Speaks and Still Point Practice speak as equals.
Track B titles, cover designs, and publication details may continue to be refined before release.
Why I wrote this book
When conflict does not resolve.
I studied how tension moves between people and within institutions. I helped schools and organizations repair relationships and strengthen belonging. Yet I had not fully understood what happens when conflict does not resolve, when conversations end in the room but continue inside the person, when responsibility grows but voice narrows, when belonging begins to feel conditional.
Unresolved tension does not disappear. It relocates. Sometimes it relocates into the body.
This book follows that movement from fracture to inner storm to the long paradox of recovery. It traces how illness reshapes identity, how relationships reorganize, how social position shifts, and how healing becomes relational, not merely medical.
It explores how overfunctioning can resemble strength while quietly draining the nervous system. How silence can feel faithful and still become costly. How belonging is not a slogan but safety, the ability to tell the truth without losing one's place.
This is not a book about blame. It is not an argument against work, ambition, or service. It is about limits. About truth. About learning to live without abandoning oneself.
A central truth
The body does not betray us.
It tells the truth we postponed.
About the author
Radar Jones Onguetou Essiene
Dr. Radar Onguetou is a scholar practitioner whose work brings together conflict analysis and resolution, organizational practice, education, leadership, trust, and belonging.
The lived questions in this book helped shape the wider research and practice agenda of Still Point Practice.
Meet the founder →The journey
From collapse toward wholeness.
The chapters move through collapse, confusion, reorientation, relational repair, and the work of becoming whole again. They ask what it means to return to public life after illness. What it means to stand near others without performing strength. What it means to rediscover God not as pressure, but as presence.
I wrote this book slowly, between appointments, in quiet mornings, on long walks where I had to admit I was not invincible. I came to see that strength is not endurance without end. It is alignment with what is true.
This book is for
- Leaders who carry more than they show.
- Professionals who function well but feel strain underneath.
- People of faith learning the difference between calling and self-erasure.
- Institutions that seek health, not only productivity.
- Anyone who has felt the body hesitate before the mind was ready to listen.
This is a book about learning to hear the body before it has to speak so loudly again.
View the book on Amazon ↗Bulk and organizational orders
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