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: :The open area is that part of our : 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 ar
e 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. :Our hidden area cannot be known : 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.