A Practice to Build a Positive Identity by Co-Authors Jerald Forster and Jennifer Rose Exhibited at L.A. Times Festival of Books

The L.A. Times Festival of Books has always been a favorite event for showcasing new self-help books that teach meditation, mindset-changing, positive affirmations, and more.

That’s why co-authors Jerald Forster and Jennifer Rose saw it as another wonderful opportunity to display their book: “Articulating Your Strengths: A Mindful Practice for Developing Your Positive Identity.” The book’s display was made possible by ReadersMagnet, a self-publishing and book marketing company.

In Articulating Your Strengths, Forster and Rose provide both a method for shifting focus from personality deficits to strengths, and a means for a gradual recognition of the value of present-focused awareness. They also share plenty of interesting information about where a number of these ideas originate.

For example, Forster has noted that the ideas he shares are derived from the Personal Construct Psychology of George Kelly and Abraham Maslow’s humanistic theory. Along with listing the usual benefits of positive self-identity, their book traces its conception back to psychology theories of the past. Still, the main process they describe in the book is written in a readable step-by-step manner.

The co-authors back up the process with a considerable resource list of studies along with the wealth of their own academic and personal experience. Forster holds a Ph.D. in Counseling Psychology and served as a counselor educator at the University of Washington from 1966 to 2001. In addition, Rose is a certified yoga teacher from the Himalayan Institute and has been teaching meditation techniques since 2003. She’s also a talented writer and was very eager to help put to paper the ideas that Forster put together from his time in academia.

“Articulating Your Strengths: A Mindful Practice for Developing Your Positive Identity” by Jerald Forster and Jennifer Rose is available on Amazon and Barnes & Noble.

The book also serves as an excellent companion to resource videos on the co-authors’ website at https://articulatingyourstrengths.org/.

“Articulating Your Strengths: A Mindful Practice for Developing Your Positive Identity”
Author | Jennifer Rose and Jerald Forster
Published date | March 28, 2020
Publisher | Independently Published
Genre | Mental Health

Authors’ Biographies

Jerald R. Forster, PhD
While pursuing a BS in math and science education, Jerald R. Forster, PhD was fortunate to take a course in counseling. This course eventually led him to enroll in the Counseling Psychology Doctoral Program at the University of Minnesota in the early 1960’s. His PhD enabled him to start a career as a Counselor Educator at the University of Washington in 1966. He transitioned to be an Emeritus Professor in 2000. Since then, he has been active in program development and writing about the application of positive psychology. He has focused on the articulation of strengths and a positive identity. He is most interested in facilitating the optimal development of those who choose to be practitioners.

Jennifer Rose, MA
Jennifer Rose, MA received her 500-hour yoga teacher certification from the Himalayan Institute, established by Swami Rama. She has been teaching yoga since 2000 and meditation since 2003. She is the founder of the Clear Water Meditation Circle and the Voracious Writers Workshop as well as the moderator of the online teleconference Conversations with the Walking Yogi. She earned an MA in writing from New York University in 1993. She worked in educational publishing from 1995 to 2015 and has been teaching writing since 2015. She currently offers online writing instruction employing a strengths focus to writers of all ages.

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