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Johari Window — Coaching tool for Self-Awareness
6 min readOct 5, 2023

This exercise can be used in 1:1 coaching and in group coaching. The purpose of this exercise is to increase group self-awareness.
What is the Johari Window?
The Johari Window is a model.
It represents 4 different aspects of an individual’s self-awareness and how they relate to other people.
In the image above, you can see four quadrants. Each represents a different “window” into an individual’s personality:
1. Open Self (Arena):
- Information that is known to both you and others.
- Thoughts, feelings, behaviours, and attributes that are readily shared and understood within a given relationship or group.
2. Blind Self
- Information that is known to others but not to you.
- The blind spots in your self-awareness that often require feedback from others to become aware of them.
3. Hidden Self (Facade)
- Information that is known to the individual but not to others.
- Aspects of oneself that are deliberately kept private (possible reasons: fear, shame, trauma, protecting professional image, cultural or religious…