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that fitted their view of the subject. These adjectives were then
mapped onto a grid.
The 4 Panes Model of the Johari Window
The grid on which the adjectives were plotted looks like a square
composed of four windows. One way to understand the grid is to
imagine yourself as the subject looking in from the left and your
observers looking down from the top. You can only both see so
far, your line being vertical from top to bottom and their line
being horizontal from side to side. Now you have a window with
four panes showing the following:
• at the top left, things that are known to you and known to
others. In Luft and Ingham's self-help groups, this is where
adjectives selected by both you and your observers would go.
This is your "open" arena.
• at the top right, things that are known to others but not you.
These would be adjectives selected by your observers but not
you. This is your "blind spot" area.
• at the bottom left, things that are known to you but not others.
These would be adjectives selected by you but not others and is
your facade or mask area.
• at the bottom right, things that are not known to others or you,
ie things that either remain as potential or well and truly hidden.
This is your unknown area.
The Johari Window in Self-Development
The most valuable use of the Johari Window is as a tool in selfdevelopment. We can use the knowledge of the four windows as
a way of finding out more about how others see us in our blind
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