These books come from the same place as the work: years of listening, research in conflict and belonging, and a life that has had to learn what the body carries.
Where it begins · Published memoir
When the Body Speaks
Conflict, Illness, and the Quiet Work of Healing
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, and 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.
This is not a book about blame. It is about limits, truth, and learning to live without abandoning oneself. It 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 rather than only productivity, and anyone who has felt the body hesitate before the mind was ready to listen.
The body does not betray us. It tells the truth we postponed.
The Companion Collection is an invitation to stay with the questions that remain after the story ends.
Bringing together a personal workbook, a discussion guide, and a facilitator guide, it creates space to reflect on conflict, belonging, illness, limits, faith, relationships, and the ways we learn to listen more carefully to ourselves and one another.
This is not a program with easy answers. It offers thoughtful questions, practical guidance, and room to notice what may have been overlooked—a path from private reflection to shared conversation to responsible practice.
For individual readers, book clubs, educators, facilitators, leaders, and communities
A Teaching Edition grounded in When the Body Speaks
A practical guide to how belonging is built, how it weakens, and how it can grow strong again. Grounded in the Still Point Practice framework, it brings lived experience, organizational inquiry, and reflective practice into one teachable volume.
For facilitators, leaders, educators, and professionals
Tools for the places where people work and learn together.
Published · Organizational Practice
Belonging That Can Hold the Truth
Three Inventories for Belonging, Trust, and Psychological Safety in Schools and Workplaces
I have watched good people grow quiet in places they care about. They did not stop caring. They learned to be careful.
This book asks whether people can tell the truth, disagree, ask for help, receive correction, and move through conflict without feeling that their place in the community is at risk.
What is inside
The 30-statement Belonging Health Spectrum.
A 25-statement Trust Module and 48-statement Organizational Diagnostic.
A guided Conflict Styles Survey, scoring, interpretation, and twelve discussion scenarios.
Thirteen difficult-conversation formulas, a facilitator script, a leader response guide, and a ninety-day plan.
Permission to reproduce the instruments for internal, noncommercial use.
The goal is not a community without conflict. The goal is a community where truth can be spoken, dignity can remain intact, and people do not have to choose between honesty and belonging.
For school leaders, people leaders, teams, mediators, consultants, and organizations
Burnout, Belonging, Carried Conflict, and the Work of Becoming Whole
A conversation can end while the conflict remains. A meeting closes. People return to work. A family moves on. A community becomes quiet. Yet someone may still be carrying what the room could not hold.
When Conflict Is Carried explores what happens when unresolved tension moves into our relationships, our work, our sense of belonging, and sometimes the way we experience our own bodies.
Drawing together conflict studies, organizational research, faith, lived experience, and practical tools, it asks a simple but important question: who is carrying what the group has not learned to hold together?
The goal is not simply to carry less. It is to build relationships and communities that know how to carry better, together.
For leaders, helpers, and anyone carrying more than their share
Publication details will be shared when the book is released.
PDF Resource · Five Visual Frameworks
Belonging and Conflict: Five Frameworks
Five illustrated references by Dr. Radar Onguetou, developed through Still Point Practice LLC, for reflection, conversation, and facilitation.
The Belonging Health Spectrum
The Five Domains of Belonging
The Five Signals to Watch
The Five Responses to Conflict
The Hidden Layer
5 landscape pages · PDF · Original full-size illustrations
Still Point Practice Publishing is the publishing imprint of Still Point Practice. It develops original and companion resources for reflection, discussion, teaching, and facilitation.
When the Body Speaks was published by Innovative Ink Publishing. The other titles on this page are part of the Still Point Practice publishing program.
Bulk and organizational orders
Bring the books into a shared conversation.
For workshops, leadership teams, learning cohorts, or larger quantities, contact Still Point Practice to discuss organizational orders.
