interpersonal relationships

1. The Johari
WindowKnowing your team..
Presented By:
Sinsu Rachel Alex
M.Sc (N) Prev Yr

2. What is Johari Window??
• Developed by American psychologists Joseph Luft and Harry Ingham
in the 1950's.
• Calling it 'Johari' after combining their first names, Joe and Harry.
• It is a useful tool for self understanding, awareness and personal growth.
• It can also be used to discover your strengths, blind spots and areas to
explore
• The Johari Window is a very popular and easily understood model of
communication.

3. The Model
• Represents information - feelings, experience, views, attitudes, skills,
intentions, motivation, etc
• Can also be used to represent the same information for a team in
relation to other teams
• It assumes a high trust environment.

4. A volunteer please….!!!

5. Open
Area
Blind
Area
Hidden
Area
Unknown
Area

6. The
Open Area

7. Key Features
• Also known as the 'area of free activity’
• Information about the person is known by him and his team
• The aim in any team is to develop the 'open area' for every person
• Because when we work in this area with others we are at our most
effective
• The space where good communications and cooperation occur

8. The
Hidden Area

9. Key Features
• ‘Hidden self' or 'avoided self/area' or 'facade’
• What is known to ourselves but kept hidden from, and
therefore unknown, to others
• Information that a person knows about himself, but which is
not revealed or is kept hidden from others.
• Sensitivities, fears, hidden agendas, manipulative
intentions, secrets etc.

10. The
Blind Area

11. Key Features
• ‘Blind self' or 'blind area' or 'blind spot’
• What is known about a person by others in the group, but is
unknown by the person him/herself.
• Could also be referred to as ignorance about oneself, or
issues in which one is deluded
• Also include issues that others are deliberately withholding
from a person

12. The
Unknown Area

13. Key features
• ‘Unknown self‘, 'area of unknown activity‘, 'unknown
area‘
• Information, feelings, latent abilities, aptitudes, experiences
etc, that are unknown to the person and unknown to
others in the group
• Can be prompted through self-discovery or observation by
others, or through collective or mutual discovery

14. The Goal of the
Model

15. Open
Area
Hidden
Area
Blind Area
Unknown
Area
Open
Area

16. • Asking for and receiving
constructive feedback
• Encouraging disclosure
• Managers promote a climate of
non-judgemental feedback.
• Group response to individual
disclosure, and reduce fear
Open Blind

17. • Self Disclosure
• Organizational culture and
working atmosphere - Team
members' preparedness to
disclose their hidden selves
• Must always be at the individual's
own discretion
Open Hidden

18. • Self-discovery/ observation by
others/ collective or mutual
discovery
• Counselling
• Not to be confused with
developing the Johari 'hidden
area’
Open
Un
known

19. A Constructive
Feedback

20. Purpose – Tohelp, not hurt
It is specific and focused on behaviour that can be
changed
Limited to amount of feedback that the
targeted person can use
Feedback should be clarified to
avoid misunderstanding

21. ADVANTAGES
• Used as a self assessment tool.
• Personal and professional development
• Identify team skills and characteristics.
• Help to communicate with others

22. DISADVANTAGES
• More limited than other tools or techniques for
generating ideas about what to do next.
• Few things are perhaps better not communicated
• Some people may react negatively.

23. Queries??

24. • Write an assignment on the
model of Johari window for
new member and submit it
now……. .

25. • Baby R.; (2001); Psychiatric nursing;(1st
edition); NR Brothers
• Dr. Lalita K. (2007); Mental Health and
Psychiatric nursing an Indian perspectives;
Bangalore; VMG Book house
• Mary .c. Townsend (2007) psychiatric
mental health nursing (5th edition) Jaypee
brothers publications .New Delhi.
• Text book of Mental Health Nursing;
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BIBLIOGRAPHY

27. OPEN AREA
HIDDEN AREA
BLIND AREA
UNKNOWN
AREA