Ego Mentoring
The concept of The Johari Window is used as a platform for mentees self identification. During the first year of the mentorship, mentors will support mentee through the involved risk and vulnerability of self disclosure.
Mentoring Tool:
A Johari window is a cognitive psychological tool created in 1955 in the United States, used to help people better understand their interpersonal communication and relationships. It is used primarily in self-help groups and corporate settings as a heuristic exercise.
Program Goal:
The Purpose of Ego is to encourage self acceptance, sense of self pride and dignity as it relates to individual culture and reward admirable behavior through the support of their mentor, thus reducing negative influences and experience that place inner-city female youth at high risk for delinquent behavior. Adolescence is difficult passage for many girls, even those who have a strong safety net of support at home and in school. A growing body of research documents the drop in self esteem and lowered confidence of many teenage girls.
Ego Period Timeline
The concept the of Johari Window is a Johari House with four rooms. Room 1 is the part of ourselves that we see and others see. Room 2 is the aspect that others see but we are not aware of. Room 3 is the most mysterious room in that the unconscious or subconscious bit of us is seen by neither ourselves nor others. Room 4 is our private space, which we know but keep from others.
Ego will assist the mentee discover who they are as individuals separate from their immediate family and as members of society. This program accepts the challenge adolescences are faced with and incorporates mentoring in order to unveil the person behind the "Who Am I" persona. During this program many of the mentees may go into a period of withdrawing from responsibilities, which Erick Erikson called a "moratorium".
