Assignment

 

Assignment Instructions:

After you have completed the assignment below, you will write a 3-5 page paper which will describe your results in detail. Please ensure to relate back to the text for relevant use of theories and constructs.

This paper should be written in an APA-Style format.

The Johari Window is a disclosure/feedback model of awareness, named after Joseph Luft and Harry Ingham. It was first used in an information session at the Western Training Laboratory in Group Development in 1955. The four panes of the window represent the following:

Open:The open area is that part of our

Blind: There are things about ourselves

conscious self - our attitudes, behavior,

which we do not know, but that others can

motivation, values, way of life - of which

see more clearly; or things we imagine to

we are aware and which is known to

be true of ourselves for a variety of reasons

others. We move within this area with

but that others do not see at all. When

freedom. We are "open books".

others say what they see (feedback), in a

It is through disclosure and feedback that

supportive, responsible way, and we are

our open pane is expanded and that we

able to hear it; in that way we are able to

gain access to the potential within us

test the reality of who we are and are able

represented by the unknown pane.

to grow.

Hidden:Our hidden area cannot be known

Unknown: We are more rich and complex

to others unless we disclose it. There is

than that which we and others know, but

that which we freely keep within ourselves,

from time to time something happens - is

and that which we retain out of fear. The

felt, read, heard, dreamed - something from

degree to which we share ourselves with

our unconscious is revealed. Then we

others (disclosure) is the degree to which

"know" what we have never "known"

we can be known.

before.

My result:

Open: The open area is that part of our conscious self- our attitudes, behavior, motivation, values, way of life - of which we are aware and which is known to others. we move within this area with freedom. We are "open books" . It is through disclosure and feedback that our open pane is expanded and that we gain access to the potential within us represented by the unknown pane.