Figure One:
The Original Johari Window
| KNOWN TO SELF | UNKNOWN TO SELF | |
| KNOWN TO OTHERS | QUADRANT ONE OPEN SELF PUBLIC SELF
| QUADRANT TWO BLIND SELF UNAWARE SELF
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| UNKNOWN TO OTHERS | QUADRANT THREE HIDDEN SELF PRIVATE SELF
| QUADRANT FOUR UNKNOWN SELF POTENTIAL SELF |
The primary principles of change offered by Luft regarding the Original Johari Model were:
- A change in any one quadrant will affect all other quadrants.
- It takes energy to hide, deny, or be blind to behavior that is involved in interaction.
- Threat tends to decrease awareness; mutual trust tends to increase awareness.
- Forced awareness (exposure) is undesirable and usually ineffective.
- Interpersonal learning means a change has taken place so that quadrant 1 is larger, and one or more of the other quadrants has grown smaller.
- Working with others is facilitated by a large enough area of free activity. It means more of the resources and skills of the people involved can be applied to the task at hand.
- The smaller the first quadrant, the poorer the communication.
- There is universal curiosity about the unknown area, but this is held in check by custom, social training, and diverse fears.
- Sensitivity means appreciating the covert aspects of behavior, in quadrants 2, 3, and 4, and respecting the desire of others to keep them so.
- Learning about group processes, as they are being experienced, helps to increase awareness (enlarging quadrant 1) for the group as a whole as well as for individual members.
- The value system of a group and its membership may be noted in the way unknowns in life of the group are confronted.
