Module 2
The Johari Window
Let's look to ourselves and others for guidance...
While learning about career options and developing our own path between career and life, it is important to look to others for perspectives of the working world and how work contributes to both our community and society.
By questioning ourselves and others on the role of family expectations and traditions, as well as looking at the needs in our community, we will develop our own perspective on what is most important when balancing both career and life.
In this assignment, you will be using a Johari Window to understand your relationship with yourself and with others. By using a Johari Window, you can then use self-assessment and reflection to develop awareness of your strengths, preferences, and skills and relate them to your potential career choices.
What is the Johari Window?
A Johari is represented as a common window with four panes. Two of these panes represent self and the other two represent the part unknown to self but to others. The information transfers from one pane to the other as the result of mutual trust which can be achieved through socializing and the feedback got from other members of the group.
The Johari window model is used to enhance the individual’s perception on others. This model is based on two ideas- trust can be acquired by revealing information about you to others and learning yourselves from their feedbacks.
Each person is represented by the Johari model through four quadrants or window pane. Each four window panes signifies personal information, feelings, motivation and whether that information is known or unknown to oneself or others in four viewpoints.
Open/self-Area or Arena
Also known as the 'area of free activity'
These are traits that both the student and their friends/family perceive
Adjectives may include: ambitious, conscientious, diligent, enthusiastic, resourceful, bold, cautious, grouchy, etc
Blind Self or Blind Spot
Adjectives not selected by the student, but only by their friends/family
These represent what others perceive but the student does not
Hidden Areas or Façade
Adjectives selected by the student, but not by any of their friends/family
These are things the friends/family are either unaware of (such as being self-conscious) or, perhaps untrue however the student feels it is true
Unknown Area
Adjectives that neither the student nor their friends or family are aware of
They represent the student's behaviors or motives that no one participating recognizes - either because they do not apply or because they are ignorant of these traits
It is the unconscious part that neither themselves not their friends and family see
ASSIGNMENT
Using the adjectives available in the following link (or others), interview a family member that knows you well and can help you to develop a Johari Window that identifies the parts of you that are:
Arena (known to self and know to others)
Façade (known to self but NOT known to others)
Blind Spot (known to other but NOT know to self)
Unknown (not known to self AND not known to others)
Step 1
Draw a template for a Johari Window either on your computer or on a piece of paper
Step 2
choose 6 adjectives that you think describe your own personality
Step 3
Give your chosen family member the same list of adjectives (from the link) and ask them to choose 6 that they think describe your personality
Step 4
Arrange the adjectives on a Johari Window based on where they belong (arena, blind spot or façade)
Step 5
Complete the "unknown" part of your Johari Window using either adjectives that were not chosen by either your or your family member, or personality traits that you have not yet had the opportunity to demonstrate
Step 6
Complete the following questions about your Johari Window in a journal reflection:
a) What information surprised you in how your family member described or perceived you?
b) How could knowing all of the information in a Johari Window assist someone in determining how they could best contribute to their community through volunteerism or making career choices?
Step 7
Upload your journal reflection and your Johari Window to your website.
SUBMIT
Submit your completed assignment in your Flex Block Google Classroom.
Due: Monday, December 11th