JOHARI WINDOW

The Johari window is a way of showing how much information you know about yourself and how much others know about you. It is named after the first names of its inventors, Joseph Luft and Harry Ingham.
The window contains four panes.

A four paned "window," divides personal awareness into four different types, as represented by its four quadrants: open, hidden, blind, and unknown. The lines dividing the four panes are like window shades, which can move as an interaction progress.

1.OPEN PANE
The "open" quadrant represents things that both I know about myself, and that you know about me. For example, I know my name, and so do you. However, when I first meet a new person, the size of the opening of this first quadrant is not very large, since there has been little time to exchange information. As the process of getting to know one another continues, the window shades placing more information into the open window, as described.

2.BLIND PANE
The "blind" quadrant represents things that you know about me, but that I am unaware of. For example, we could be eating at a restaurant, and I may have unknowingly gotten some food on my face. This information is in my blind quadrant because you can see it, but I cannot. If you now tell me that I have something on my face, then the window shade moves to the right, enlarging the open quadrant's area.

3.HIDDEN PANE
The "hidden" quadrant represents things that I know about myself that you do not know. So for example, I have not told you what one of my favorite colours is. This information is in my "hidden" quadrant. As soon as I tell you that I love ‘pink’, it means that I am effectively pulling the window shade down, moving the information in my hidden quadrant and enlarging the open quadrant's area.


4.UNKNOWN PANE
The "unknown" quadrant represents things that neither I know about myself, nor you know about me. For example, I may disclose a dream that I had, and as we both attempt to understand its significance, a new awareness may emerge, known to neither of us before the conversation took place.

CONCLUSIONS
The Johari window, essentially being a model for communication. However, it can also reveal difficulties in this area. In Johari terms, two people attempt to communicate via the open quadrants. On the simplest level, difficulties may arise due to a lack of clarity in the interaction, such as poor grammar or choice of words, unorganized thoughts, faulty logic etc. This induces the receiver to criticize you, the sender, by revealing something that was in your blind quadrant. Then, if the feedback works, you correct it immediately, or perhaps on a more long term approach take a course in reading and writing. On a deeper level, you may be in a group meeting, and while you secretly sympathize with the minority viewpoint, you voted with the majority. However, blind to you, you actually may be communicating this information via body language, in conflict with your verbal message. On an even deeper level, you in an interaction with others, may always put on a smiling, happy face, hiding all negative feelings. By withholding negative feelings, you may be signaling to your friends to withhold also, and keep their distance. Thus, your communication style may seem bland or distant.

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BY: NUR SHAKIRIN