JOHARI Window Worksheet

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Introduction

An important part of self-awareness is understanding that the way you view and describe yourself often overlaps only in part with the way others perceive you. Joseph Luft and Harry Ingham described four dimensions of self-awareness, known as the JOHARI Window. Using this tool in combination with the exercise and the journal entry will help you to better understand yourself by investigating how you would describe yourself and comparing and contrasting that to how others would describe you.

List of Adjectives

Instructions (if not using the module instructions)

• Download the JOHARI Window Worksheet and review the list of adjectives. Select 5 or 6 adjectives you would use to best describe your own personality. You can temporarily copy and paste these into the Hidden Self cell.
• Print out at least 3 copies of the Adjective List from the JOHARI Window Worksheet, and give a copy people you work with (either in formal employment, in volunteer settings, or classmates) whom you can trust to give honest yet supportive feedback. Ask each person to select 5 or 6 adjectives they believe best describe your personality.

• NOTE: Make sure they do not see the adjectives you chose for yourself.

• When you receive the lists of adjectives from those you asked for feedback copy and paste them into the Blind Self cell.
• Review the adjectives in both the Blind Self and Hidden Self cells. Move any adjectives that appear in both of those cells into the Open Self cell.
• Any adjectives that are not present in any cell can be moved from the adjective list into the Unknown Self cell.

Attribution

This worksheet and activity is based on:

Luft, J., & Ingram, H. (1955). The Johari Window: A graphic model for interpersonal relations. Los Angeles: University of California Western Training Lab.,Luft, J. (1970). Group processes: An introduction to group dynamics (2nd ed.). Palo Alto, CA: National Press Group.