Developed by Joseph Luft and Harrington Ingham (The Johari Window, a Graphic Model of Interpersonal Awareness, 1955).
A two-by-two grid of what a person knows about themselves against what others know, showing where feedback and disclosure would widen the shared picture.
When to reach for it
A team or working pair that keeps stumbling over things nobody says aloud and needs a common language for asking for and giving feedback.
How it runs
- Draw four panes: open, blind, hidden, and unknown.
- Place what each person sees in themselves and in others in the panes.
- Choose the pane whose change would matter most to the work.
- Ask for feedback to shrink the blind pane; disclose to shrink the hidden one.
- Revisit later and note how the boundaries have moved.
Where it sits in SOLVE eX
Go to the source
- The Johari Window, a Graphic Model of Interpersonal Awareness, Proceedings of the Western Training Laboratory in Group Development, UCLA, 1955