Coaching practices for The Johari Window Before Bed

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Does this sound like the set of challenges you might be facing?

  • I know in the abstract that I have blind spots, but I couldn’t name a single one
  • Our team has patterns that everyone outside us seems to see clearly while none of us inside it can
  • I keep saying "that’s just not who I am" and steering clear of anything that doesn’t fit my picture of myself
  • I keep so much of what I actually think and feel to myself that people around me are constantly guessing wrong
  • I get into bed and my thoughts start racing in every direction, broad and scattered, and I can’t drop off

Practices that may help

  1. The Johari Window
    The Johari Window, developed by Joseph Luft and Harrington Ingham, is a model of self-knowledge and interpersonal disclosure organized into four quadrants: Open (known to self and others), Blind (known to others, not to self), Hidden (known to self, not to others), and Unknown (known to neither). It is used in coaching and organizational development to guide feedback exchange and self-disclosure, expanding the Open area and reducing blind spots.
  2. Map your Johari Window with a trusted person
    Identify what is open, hidden, and blind in a specific relationship or role.
    The Johari Window
  3. Use the Johari Window in team settings
    Apply the window at the team level to improve shared understanding and reduce inter-member blind spots.
    The Johari Window
  4. Expand the Unknown quadrant through challenge and experience
    Try things outside your current self-concept — undiscovered capacity lives in the Unknown quadrant.
    The Johari Window
  5. Expand the Open area through deliberate self-disclosure
    Share what you know about yourself that others don’t — reducing the Hidden quadrant.
    The Johari Window
  6. Pre-sleep trataka for insomnia and mind-calming
    A ten-minute trataka session in low light before bed draws scattered thoughts into a single point.
    Trataka: The Yoga Practice of Fixed-Gaze Meditation
  7. The Pythagorean evening examination (Hadot’s version)
    Before sleep, review the day in three questions: Where did I go wrong? What did I succeed at? What remains undone?
    Pierre Hadot’s Spiritual Exercises
  8. The three-question evening review
    Ask three questions before sleep: What did I do wrong? What did I succeed at? What could I have done better?
    The Pythagorean Evening Review
  9. Offload cognitive load with a bedtime worry journal
    Write tomorrow’s to-do list and any intrusive worries before bed — externalized thoughts stop competing for attention at sleep onset.
    The Wind-Down Routine: Engineering Your Path to Sleep
  10. End every review with a single resolved next action
    The review is incomplete until you name one specific thing you will do differently tomorrow.
    The Pythagorean Evening Review

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