Not found in some far flung place.

The Johari tribe are those who know many things.

They know they know things about themselves no one else knows.

They know there are things they know about themselves which others know too.

They know there are things others know about them and they don’t know about themselves.

They know there are things they don’t know about themselves, and others don’t now about them.

And they know, knowing there are things unknown to them and to others about them is the most important thing they know.*

The Johari are a tribe drawn from many places and peoples, who have found themselves shunned or distrusted or ridiculed or devalued because they are always questioning and pushing beliefs and behaviours, because they know the ‘”unknown unknowns” [have] proven to be a major force in shaping futurity.’**

The Johari continually develop tools and arts and environments and journeys which allow them to move from the known to the unknown, and to move the definitely unknown into the possibly unknown.  They scan their horizons, constantly moving, to see what might be known and understood.  How else do you come across what no-one knows?

Anyone is welcome into the tribe.  Any who struggle within the parameters of their own tribe, who struggle to use only the permitted language, struggle to compromise, to to put their imaginations on hold.  Many times someone has found and joined the Johari and found helpto stay in their own tribe too.  Others have found their road opening up and calling them on.

This is all the unknown unknown.

(*I believe the Johari tribe exists, though there are few documents about them,  but here’s one aboutthe Johari Window which does exist.)
(**I’ve changed the tense in this closing line from Alex McManus’s Makers of Fire.)
(Here’s an oblique look at the same thing from Seth Godin.)