See where you are
The map helps you locate the stuck place without making it heavier than it already is.
Kristen's signature process
Stop thinking in circles. Pull out the map.
Standing in the Question is Kristen's clarity-igniting toolkit for moving from stuck to unstuck with confidence, courage, and a clearer sense of the next honest step.
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Map the stuck place. Ask the honest question. Move with more courage. When the swirl gets loud
A gentler way to find your way forward.
Being stuck can feel complicated: too many options, too much pressure, not enough trust in the path ahead. Standing in the Question gives that moment a shape.
The drawings are simple on purpose. They make room for the deeper work: noticing where you are, naming what is asking for attention, and choosing a next step that feels aligned instead of forced.
How it began
Stick figures, stories, and the moment a path appears.
For more than 20 years, Kristen helped people navigate the kinds of stuck places that can leave a person anxious, exhausted, or unsure where to turn next.
Her professional training gave her plenty of strategies. But the biggest aha moments often arrived through something simpler and more alive: a little drawing, a well-told story, and the right question at the right time.
Standing in the Question grew from that discovery into a tactile map people can return to when they are ready to stop circling the problem and begin listening for the way through.
How the process works
Three movements from stuck to unstuck.
Create the question
The workbook helps you shape a question that opens possibility instead of tightening the problem.
Choose the next step
Guided reflection helps you move with clarity, confidence, and practical forward motion.
Inside the toolkit
Story, inquiry, and illustrated guidance in one practical process.
The Standing in the Question Navigational Toolkit brings together Kristen's map, guidebook, Creating the Question cards, and workbook support so the process can live on your desk, in a coaching session, or beside the conversation you are trying to understand.
- The Map: 33 illustrated cards that form a visual path from stuck to unstuck.
- The Guidebook: illustrated instructions and explanations for each step.
- The CQ Bonus Pack: 11 illustrated cards for shaping a better question.
- The Workbook: deeper support for creating a question worth standing in.
Printed with room to work. Cards are 4.5-inch squares with a matte finish, made to be laid out, moved around, and revisited.
Hear Kristen explain it
A process that makes room for the answer to arrive.
Kristen created Standing in the Question for people who have tried to think their way out of a stuck place and are ready for a more spacious, embodied, and creative way to listen.
Companion resources
Gentle support for entering the process.
These free pieces from the Standing in the Question world help people settle in, listen inward, and begin working with the map from a more grounded place.
Centering Meditation
Settle in and open to receive the information you have been seeking.
Listen to the meditation
Creating the Question Visualization
Receive new details for shaping a question that feels spacious and alive.
Listen to the visualization
How to Draw a Feeling
Watch Kristen demonstrate how a feeling can become a simple, useful stick figure.
Watch the demoWhat people carry with them
A go-to resource for navigating to freedom.
"The Standing in the Question process is both delightful and essential. Through using it myself, my mindset around marketing my book shifted from feeling like work to feeling fun and easy."
"For me, the Standing in the Question Navigational Tool has been like a looking glass into my own heart. It has prompted and encouraged me toward positive change."
About Kristen
A voice for clarity when people are ready to move forward.
Kristen Peairs, MS, is a facilitator, speaker, coach, and creator of Standing in the Question. She helps people and groups move from uncertainty into clearer understanding, honest conversation, and grounded action.
With more than 20 years of teaching and coaching experience, Kristen brings leadership development, behavioral change, emotional intelligence, mindfulness, and whole-person perspective into one practical body of work.
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Get the toolkit and begin the next question.
Standing in the Question gives you a tactile, visual process for finding the question, naming the next step, and moving forward with more confidence and courage.