MODULE 1

KNOWING ONESELF
Understanding oneself during middle and late adolescence

PERsonal DEVelopment

LIZALYNN C. MAMBIAR, LPT

To get started, pick the five or six words that you feel best describe
you, from the list below:-
Once the adjectives are selected, they are then placed into four buckets, or windows:
1.Arena – attributes that you selected for yourself, and other people also selected for
you
1. Typically a person’s most prevalent or obvious characteristics
2. “Everyone knows that I am X…”
2.Blind Spot – attributes that others selected for you, but you did not select for yourself
1. Subconscious characteristics, or external perceptions that you don’t identify with
2. “I didn’t know that I am seen as X…”
3.Facade – attributes that you selected for yourself, but others did not select for you
1. Characteristics that are not externally present or obvious
2. “I feel like X… but I don’t share that”; “You don’t see X in me?”
4.Unknown – attributes that neither you nor others selected for you
1. Irrelevant characteristics
2. “I’m not X…”
 NOT KNOWN TO SELF
ARENA BLIND SPOT
KNOWN TO
OTHER Everyone knows that I am_____ I didn’t know that I am seen as ____

FAÇADE UNKNOWN
NOT I feel like _____ but I don’t share I am not _______
KNOWN TO that;
OTHERS You don’t see _____ in me?