The Decision Framework

1. Term

The Decision Framework. The methodology that contains the five components defined in this section.

2. Definition

The Decision Framework is Sofía Silva Berenguer’s five-component methodology for how a person moving into independent practice identifies, sequences and sustains the decisions the structure around her used to make for her.

3. Purpose

To replace borrowed, external decision criteria with a system the client owns and can run without Sofía once the engagement ends.

4. Scope

Applies to women moving out of a structure that set their priorities for them (an institutional career, a family business, or years of externally directed work) and into independent practice. It is applied through the Choose Forward Intensive and the Room to Decide Circle.

Out of scope: technical business execution, including marketing, operations and financial systems.

5. Components

1. Decision Clarity: naming what a decision includes, what it excludes and who owns it.
2. Strategic Sequencing: ordering initiatives by energy and life, not a project plan.
3. Initiative Pruning: deciding what to keep, park or let go, as deliberate design rather than failure.
4. Sustainable Momentum: the review rhythms that hold a decision in place over time.
5. Decision Architecture: the integrated system the first four components build, owned by the client.

6. Outputs

A named decision, a sequenced set of initiatives, a keep / park / let go sort, a review rhythm that sustains the decision, and an integrated system the client can run independently.

Success is measured by the client no longer needing Sofía to decide well.

7. Relationships

• Components: Decision Clarity, Strategic Sequencing, Initiative Pruning, Sustainable Momentum, Decision Architecture
• Operationalised by: The Choose Forward Intensive. The Intensive runs the framework’s first movement (Decision Clarity and Initiative Pruning) in compressed form, over two sessions
• Operationalised by: Facilitation. Facilitation is the working relationship through which the framework is applied: the practitioner creates the conditions, and the client owns the outcome
• Applied in: The Room to Decide Circle. The Circle applies Initiative Pruning in a group setting
• Resolves into: Decision Architecture. Applied in full, the five components resolve into the client’s own Decision Architecture, an integrated system that is hers, not Sofía’s
• Operationalises: Go and flow. The framework is the practical expression of go and flow

8. Authorship

Developed by Sofía Silva Berenguer. Confirmed as the name of the framework in April 2026.

9. Version control

Version 1, April 2026. Last reviewed 8 October 2026.