Self Awareness Pt 2.

Part 2 Self awareness in groups Johari window A johari window test is nothing but a self help test... It helps you identify your weakness or strengths... What happens is that there are about 50 adjectives given in a box... You must pick the ones that describe you and then your peers or people that you know or hang around with are asked to pick some adjectives that describe you... Now these words that are picked are placed in four boxes... One box is the arena where the words that have been picked by you and your peers is placed... These are your public or know traits... Then the ones that are picked by you and not by others fall into the 2nd box which is the facade... These are the traits that you hide or don't show people... The third box is where the adjectives your peers picked but you didn't are placed... This box is the blind spot where the traits you didn't know you had are placed... And the fourth box is where the neither you nor your peers picked adjectives are placed... This tells about your potential... These four boxes are arranged like a house of four rooms which are called johari houses... Hence the test name johari window... It is necessary to improve self-awareness and personal development among individuals when they are in a group. The ‘Johari’ window model is a convenient method used to achieve this task of understanding and enhancing communication between members in a group. American psychologists Joseph Luft and Harry Ingham developed this model in 1955. The idea was derived as the upshot of the group dynamics in University of California and was later improved by Joseph Luft. The name ‘Johari’ came from joining their first two names, Joseph and Harry . This model is also denoted as feedback or a disclosure model of self-awareness.