1. JOHARI WINDOW
DR.C.Karthik Deepa
Assistant Professor
Department of Education
Avinashilingam Institute for Home Science & Higher Education for Women, Coimbatore,
Tamilnadu, India.
cherrydeepa@gmail.com
+919095673599
2. Johari Window
The Johari window is a technique created in
1955 by two American psychologists, Joseph
Luft (1916–2014) and Harrington Ingham
(1914–1995),
used to help people better understand their
relationship with self and others.
It is used primarily in self-help groups and
corporate settings as a heuristic exercise.
3. Johari Adjectives
A Johari window consists of the following 57 adjectives
used as possible descriptions of the participant.They are:
Able, ambivert, accepting, adaptable, bold, calm, caring,
cheerful, clever, congenial, complex , confident,
dependable, dignified, energetic, extrovert, friendly,
giving, happy, helpful, idealistic, independent, ingenious,
intelligent, introvert, kind, knowledgeable, logical, loving,
mature, modest, nervous, observant, optimistic,
organized, patient, powerful, proud, aggressive, reflective,
relaxed, religious, responsive, searching, self-assertive,
self-conscious, sensible, sentimental, shy, silly, smart,
spontaneous, sympathetic, tense, trustworthy, warm,
wise
4. How to use Johari window
When performing the exercise, subjects are
given a list of 56 adjectives and pick five or six
that they feel describe their own personality.
Peers of the subject are then given the same
list, and each pick five or six adjectives that
describe the subject.
These adjectives are then mapped onto a
grid.
5. Johari House with four rooms
Charles Handy calls this concept the Johari
House with four rooms.
Room 1 is the part of ourselves that we see and
others see.
Room 2 is the aspects that others see but we are
not aware of.
Room 3 is the most mysterious room in that the
unconscious or subconscious part of us is seen
by neither ourselves nor others.
Room 4 is our private space, which we know but
keep from others.
6. johari window four regions
1. what is known by the person about him/herself and
is also known by others - open area, open self, free
area, free self, or 'the arena'
2. what is unknown by the person about him/herself
but which others know - blind area,blind self, or
'blindspot'
3. what the person knows about him/herself that
others do not know - hidden area, hiddenself,
avoided area, avoided self or 'facade'
4. what is unknown by the person about him/herself
and is also unknown by others - unknown area or
unknown self
7. Johari window four regions -
model diagram
The Johari Window is based on a four-square grid
–
it is like a window with four 'panes'.
each quadrant the same size.
The JohariWindow 'panes‘ can be changed in size to
reflect the relevant proportions of each type
of 'knowledge' of/about a particular person in a given
group or team situation. In new groups or teams the
open free space for any team member is small
because shared awareness is relatively small. As the
team member becomes better established and
known, so the size of the team member's open free
area quadrant increases.
8. The Johari Window model
used for understanding and training
self-awareness,
personal development,
improving communications,
interpersonal relationships,
group dynamics,
team development and
inter-group relationships
9. The Johari Window model
is also referred to as
a 'disclosure/
feedback model of self awareness',
'information processing tool'.
10. The Johari Window : what it
represents ?
The Johari Window actually represents
information - feelings, experience, views,
attitudes, skills, intentions, motivation, etc -
within or about a person - in relation to their
group, from four perspectives