Master Self-Awareness | How the Johari Window Will Change Your Perspective | Beyond The Sugarcoat
Unlock a new level of self-awareness with the Johari Window! In this Beyond the Sugarcoat episode, Diane and Satia North dive into how understanding yourself better can lead to personal growth. Watch now and discover your true potential!
Faculty Development Program: Johari Window for Self-Awareness & Interpersonal Communication
The Faculty Development Program on the Effective Use of the Johari Window for Self-Awareness and Interpersonal Communication was a resounding success, garnering enthusiastic feedback from Senior School Teachers.
Led by the highly respected Dr. Shoury Kuttappa, the program delved into innovative ways to enhance self-awareness and strengthen interpersonal communication skills among educators.
Dr. Shoury Kuttappa's engaging approach and deep understanding of the Johari Window framework provided participants with actionable insights into fostering transparency, trust, and collaboration in their professional interactions. The interactive sessions, combined with real-world applications, empowered teachers to reflect on their communication styles and build stronger connections with colleagues and students alike.
This faculty development program highlighted the critical role of self-awareness in education, with Dr. Kuttappa’s expertise leaving a lasting impression on all attendees.
Johari Window - Self Assessment A Johari window is a psychological tool created by Joseph Luft and Harry Ingham in 1955. It’s a simple and useful tool for understanding and training: self-awareness personal development improving communications interpersonal relationships group dynamics team development; and inter group relationships The Johari Window model is a simple and useful tool for illustrating and improving self-awareness, and mutual understanding between individuals within a group. The Johari Window model can also be used to assess and improve a group's relationship with other groups. The Johari Window model was devised by American psychologists Joseph Luft and Harry Ingham in 1955, while researching group dynamics at the University of California Los Angeles. The model was first published in the Proceedings of the Western Training Laboratory in Group Development by UCLA Extension Office in 1955, and was later expanded by Joseph Luft. Today the Johari Window model is especially releva... https://humanengineers.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/johari_picture.gif https://tinyurl.com/yzqrxpv3 https://humanengineers.com/23428/?feed_id=14360&_unique_id=6112640163700
There’s a JLG lift at work near my office. If you don’t know what a JLG lift is, it’s basically a fancy ladder on wheels. It’s a boom lift like you would see on a lineman’s cherry picker truck - except minus the truck. And it beeps. And beeps. Every time the boom moves, it beeps. Which means background noise for me.
Try as I may, it shows up in my zoom calls, my podcasts, my phone conversations. Everything.
While we were getting off the phone the other day, my wife said, “I hope that beeping stops for you.” I honestly hadn’t heard it in a bit. It just was in the background. I wasn’t conscious of it at that time.
There’s this thing called the Johari window that breaks up our awareness into 4 categories:
1. I’m aware and you’re aware
2. I’m aware and you’re not aware
3. I’m not aware, but you are
4. Neither of us are aware
What background noise is in your background that you’re unaware of but other people can hear? What can you hear in the background of other people’s lives that they can’t hear?
The Johari Window is a powerful tool for crafting dimensional characters. It also helps creators develop layered stories that will resonate for generations.
A first-rate article from Kristen Lamb on using the Johari Window in order to develop fuller characters. Highly recommended.
As a part of understanding ourselves, we had this activity which was very much fun yet scary thing to do. It was called the Johari Window activity to be explained in a while.
But first, lemme give y’all the backstory:
It was a very nice day, not too hot not too cold, we were all sitting in our SocSci classroom — very noisy. Suddenly, our teacher, Ma’am Ave asked us to get a piece of paper (a blue paper) and the students were at an uproar.
“Hala! Ano gagawen!” everybody shouted.
It was thrilling because every time ma’am asked us to get a piece of paper, everyone would just be out of their minds, thinking about a “quiz”.
It was blue though, the paper was blue, so me and my friend (Renz) weren’t that shookedt about an upcoming quiz, we knew that there would simply be an activity — and then there was!
It was a simple activity, to summarize the directions, you just put things about yourself on one part of the paper, and at the backside, people would write something about you (when the proctor tells everyone to do so).
Here’s my results!
People thought of me, just how I wanted them to. A ‘funny’, ‘loud’ person with a hint of Kpop fan (as pertained by the Red Flavor comment) inside.
However, there were comments that were surprising for me: out-going? responsible? favorite English classmate (i’m so kilig)? VIRGIN HAHA? and magis?
I never knew that people looked at me that way also. Just to give you an outlook of how I perceived myself to be, here’s the other page:
Besides your typical, “noisy”, “funny”adjectives, I also wrote some of the negative things I thought myself to be. Perfectionist, short-tempered, matakaw, masungit, maantukin, sabog, and even young (perhaps this is relatable to the “virgin” adjective lol).
That was the point of the activity, to determine how different it was to see yourself as you, and as another person. There were various perspectives or ways to look at me — and I forgot to think about that.
Basically, there were four panels (perspectives) to the Johari Window.
1. OPEN ARENA - which contained the similar things that you know about yourself, and what others perceive you to be.
2. BLIND SPOT - which contained the things that you do not know about yourself but others know.
3. HIDDEN ARENA - which contained characteristics that you know yet you don’t show or are not known to others.
4. UNKNOWN - which contained personalities that needed to be opened.
I placed all of the characteristics I wrote and others wrote to create my Johari Window, and surprisingly (as seen in the second picture), I had lots of blind spots and characteristics in my hidden arena.
It was quite disturbing at first, knowing that I stress a lot of how people perceived me to be. There were many things in my blind spots — I was very anxious! Fortunately, reading it a bit more times, there were actually more positive things that people think about me.
On the other hand, looking at the hidden arena (OH NOES!), I thought of myself very negatively. Super, super, super negatively. My hidden arena was composed of very bad (not-so-bad) things and that’s when I realized that all this time, I am always thinking of bad things about myself!
The activity was mind opening. These past few weeks, I always thought that I had confidence and I thought of myself as the ‘real’ me, that I was already contented.
BUT I WAS NOT!
As seen in this activity, I still have a lot to go through, especially in changing the mindset of myself or how I view myself.