41-54 The What’s Next Method

A set of 14 vocabulary flashcards detailing the steps, questions, benefits, and definitions related to The What’s Next Method.

The What’s Next Method

The process for making the next aligned choice that moves people from emotional charge, uncertainty, and repeated patterns into awareness, regulation, clarity, and action.

The Four Steps

The complete sequence of the method: Notice, Neutralize, Navigate, and Move.

Notice

The first step, which means becoming aware of what is happening before you react by identifying the emotion, pattern, thought, trigger, story, or behavior.

Neutralize

The second step, which involves creating space between the emotional charge and the reaction by regulating, slowing down, and softening the intensity.

Navigate

The third step, which entails finding clarity by looking at the truth, options, responsibility, fear, pattern, and the possible outcome of the choice.

Move

The fourth step, which means taking the next aligned, honest step where awareness is transformed into action.

Notice Questions

Inquiries such as "What is happening?", "What am I feeling?", "What am I reacting to?", and "What pattern is showing up?"

Neutralize Questions

Inquiries like "Can I pause before I react?", "What is activated in me?", and "What does my nervous system need?"

Navigate Questions

Inquiries such as "What is true?", "What is needed?", "What is aligned?", and "What am I responsible for?"

Move Questions

Inquiries such as "What is the next aligned choice?", "What is the next honest step?", and "What action reflects who I want to become?"

Method Preventatives

Problems the method helps avoid, including reacting, spiraling, avoiding, overexplaining, shrinking, numbing, people-pleasing, and self-abandoning.

Method Creations

Positive outcomes established by the method, such as space, awareness, regulation, clarity, responsibility, self-trust, and aligned action.

One Sentence Explanation

A summary stating the method helps people pause, understand what is happening, and make the next aligned choice instead of repeating the same pattern.

Conversational Explanation

A description of the method as a process to stop spiraling in a situation and come back to the next clear, honest, aligned step.