EVENT INFORMATION
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Event Dates: August 14 - 15, 2019
Event Venue:
The Fiesta Pavilion, Manila Hotel
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SPECIAL EVENTS
- Film Showing
- Product Presentations
- Games & Raffle Draws
- Magic Shows, Storytelling, Group Reading for Kids
- Social and Business Functions: Activities for sponsors, exhibitors, delegates,
and invited guests to socialize and network
VISITORS PROFILE
- Maritime industry trade and business associations / organizations
- Members of the academe
- Seafarers and their families
- Local Government Units (LGUs)
- Financial Institutions
- General Public |
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EXHIBITION PROFILE
- Agri-tourism and Leisure Properties
- Airlines
- Automotive Dealerships
- Classification Societies
- Educational Institutions
- Franchising Operators
- Hospitals / Clinics
- Hotels / Resorts / Restaurants
- Insurance Companies
- Mall and Shopping Complex
- Manning Agencies
- Maritime Schools, Review and Training Centers
- National and Local Government Institutions
- Offshore Companies / Agencies
- Other Companies providing Ancillary Services to the Maritime Industry
- Pharmaceutical Companies |
- Port Operators
- Products & Services for Seafarer Family Organizations and Cooperatives
- Real Estate and Property Developers
- Ship Builders / Dry Docking Facilities
- Ship Chandlers
- Shipping Companies
- Souvenirs & Novelty Products, Food Delicacies from different Regions (dry & packed), etc.
- Stevedores
- Telecommunication Providers
- Themeparks/Amusement Centers
- Tour and Travel Companies
- Transport Operators
- Wellness & Fitness Centers |
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OPENING PROGRAM
August 14, 2019 1:00 PM – 4:00 PM
| 8:20 AM | | Registration |
| 9:20 AM | | Doxology |
| 9:25 AM | | Entry of Colors |
| 9:30 AM | | Philippine National Anthem |
| 9:35 AM | | Welcome Remarks:
MS. MARISSA OCA, President, Gig and the Amazing Sampaguita Foundation, Inc. (GASFI) |
| 9: 40 AM | | Message:
HON. PIA S. CAYETANO, Senator, Senate of the Philippines (invited) |
| 9:50 AM | | Message and Introduction of the Keynote Speaker:
DR. CONRADO F. OCA, President, Associated Marine Officers’ & Seamen’s Union of the Philippines (AMOSUP) |
| 10:00 AM | | Keynote Speech:
H.E. PRESIDENT RODRIGO ROA DUTERTE, President, Republic of the Philippines
*to be represented by the Department of Transportation (DOTr) |
| 10:30 AM | | Ribbon-cutting of SFIC Expo:
DOTr representative to be joined by Senator Pia Cayetano, Dr. Conrado F. Oca, Ms. Marissa Ocaand representatives of government and private partners. |
| | Tour of Exhibits |
| 12:00 Noon | | Lunch: Reception Hall |
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CONGRESS
PLENARY SESSION
August 14, 2019 1:00 PM – 4:00 PM
Moderator : Assoc. Professor Ma. Rosel S. San Pascual, PhD
Chair, Graduate Studies Department
Sustaining And Enhancing The Filipino Seafaring Labor Force For The Global Maritime Market
- “Advocacy and Activism for Lifelong Well - Being” (1:20 – 1:40 PM)
MR. FERDINAND GARCIA, Accidental Activist
- Family Programs And Best Practices (1:45 – 2:05 PM)
MR. LU AUNG, Executive Member, Independent Federation of Myanmar Seafarers
Maritime organizations and manning agencies design programs and offer welfare services to help seafarers and their families sustain their repeated separations. In sharing their efforts to safeguard migrants' and their families' well- being, a practitioner from a maritime organization will highlight the influence of programs and policies on everyday family life.
- OPEN FORUM (2:05 - 2:25 PM)
- Mental Health Awareness: Kumusta Kabaro? (2:30 – 2:50 PM)
MS. KAREN PAULA MANALO, Life Coach and Mental, Health Advocate
Seafaring is a precarious profession. With each contract, the seafarer risks not only his/her physical safety but also his/her mental health. The physical demands and social isolation caused by the repeated departures from home can take its toll on the mental well-being of the seafarer, as well as of those who are left behind. Beginning with a simple Kumusta? (How are you?), speakers will offer information on what to look out and where can we seek assistance.
*Kumusta Kabaro? (How are you Mate?) is the mental health awareness program of the GOLD Foundation.
- Happy Family, Happy Seafarer #SustainableWellBeing #HappyCrew (2:55 – 3:15 PM)
MR. BEN BAILEY, Director of Advocacy and Regional Engagement, The Mission to Seafarers
One of the motivations, if not the primary reason, for seafarers to traverse the world's waters is the family. The knowledge that their hard-earned money will help secure their family's well-being gives them the strength to face the hardships at sea. The speaker will highlight the role of the family in the sea-based migrant's welfare and maritime career.
- OPEN FORUM / WRAP UP (3:20 - 3:45 PM) |
SEMINAR - ADULT SESSION
August 15, 2019
- Learning to Say No: Setting Boundaries In Family Life (8:45 – 9:15 AM)
ATTY. IMELDA BARCELONA, President, Women’s International Shipping and Trading Association (WISTA) Philippines
A seafarer family often provides financial and care assistance to the extended family members. Usually seen as the family's financial reservoir, relatives and neighbors seek the help of the seafarer for their monetary needs. The discussion will cover the reasons behind this family practice and how seafarers and their wives can manage familial expectations and handle requests for aid.
- Riding the Storm: Shifting Family Relations (9:15 – 9:45 AM)
MS. MARIA CYNTHIA JAVIER-GAVINO, Ph.D., Professor, Family Counselor & Psychologist,
Center for Family Ministries (CEFAM), Ateneo de Manila University
The seafaring profession is always attached to the inevitable separation from their families for every employment contract resulting to constant family adjustments. Our speakers will offer advice on how to deal with the repeated departures and arrivals of the seafarers and understand the constantly changing family dynamics.
- Cashing In Early... What's Next?: Wising Up With Your Decisions (9:50 – 10:20 AM)
MR. CHRISTOPHER CERVANTES, President & Founder, Cardinal Buoy
With the relatively higher earnings brought by working at sea, seafarers and their partners need to be equipped and ready to manage their allotments. Proper financial planning and emergency funds are necessary because seafaring is a volatile profession filled with uncertainties with each deployment. Seafarer families must learn to think forward, spend wisely, save and invest more.
- OPEN FORUM (10:20 - 10:35 AM)
- COFFEE BREAK (10:40 - 10:45 AM)
- Sandwich Generation: "Parenting" Your Parents and Kids (10:50 – 11:25 AM)
MS. REBECCA MEDEZ, Psycho – Spiritual Family Counselor, Registered Guidance Counselor (RGC)
A seafarer's maritime career is highly entangled with his/her family life. In every life decision or professional choice, the seafarer considers his/her parents who greatly invested on their offspring's deployments along with his/her partner and children's dependence on the allotment. Let us listen to practical advice and tips on how to address the common dilemma of care extended, often "strained", families of seafarers.
- Truths and Myths of Seafarer Families: What You Didn't Know The Whcich You Should Know By Now
(11:30 – 12:00 NN)
ATTY. IRIS BAGUILAT, President, Döhle Seafront Crewing (Manila), Inc.
"Seamanloloko", "Girl in every port", "one day millionaires" and "dysfunctional families" are only a few of the common labels associated with seafarers and their family relations. Are they true? Do they still apply to the bagong bayani and his/her family? It is time to unveil the numerous myths and misconceptions tied to the maritime profession, sea-based migrants and the families they often leave behind. Our speakers will reveal their truths about seafarer families.
- OPEN FORUM (12:05 - 12:25 PM)
- LUNCH (12:30 - 1:30 PM)
- Family Stories:Sharing for Healing (1:35 – 2:05 PM)
DR. SENA OKSUZ, Assistant Professor, Faculty of Health, Istanbul Sabahattin Zaim University
Families face many challenges throughout the migrants' maritime career. Sharing their stories of pain and triumph offer families opportunities to better equip themselves on how to deal with their cyclically shifting family arrangement and relations. Welfare and support organizations will discuss the programs and services they extend to seafarer families and highlight how their family aid assists constantly separated families weather their storms.
- Be The Captain of Your Life: Choosing Your Admiral (2:10 – 2:45 PM)
1. MR. JESS AND MRS. MERCY FERRER, Couples for Christ Global Mission Foundation, Inc.
2. MS. GITTE PADAGDAGAN, Author of Bidang Misis
Seafarers' partners are often left-behind to be the family's primary caregiver, manage household funds and carry out everyday decision making. Their expanded responsibilities and heightened emotional labour include bridging the relationship between their frequently absent spouses and children and assisting their partners in their social re-integration. Because seafarers' partners play a significant role in the families' well-being and the seafarers' maritime career, it is important that sea-based migrants and their partners understand the expectations, responsibilities and burdens of those entrusted with the family's daily welfare.
- OPEN FORUM / WRAP UP (2:50 - 3:35 PM)
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SEMINAR - YOUTH SESSION
August 15, 2019
- Sino Ako? Tanggap Ko Ba? Belonging To A Seafarer Family (8:45 – 9:15 AM)
ASSOC. PROF. JAYEEL CORNELIO, Director of the Development Studies Program, Ateneo de Manila University
The goal of this session is for the members of the seafarer families to have a better understanding and appreciation of their unique family set-up and the challenges they face. This session will also discuss their repeatedly changing family arrangements and how family members can see themselves playing pivotal roles in adapting to the shifting tides of family life.
- Careers At Sea: Passion Or Pressure (9:20 – 9:50 AM)
CAPT. MARIA KRISTINA JAVELLANA, Master Mariner, Pacific Ocean Manning, Inc. V.SHIPS
The seafaring profession offers a challenging life at sea but also a rewarding career. It demands the dedication and commitment of the seafarer but also the unwavering support of his/her family. But before "diving into the sea", this session will help you delve into the question if seafaring is your life's purpose and passion and not primarily enticed by the financial rewards and promoted by family pressure.
- #Lit: Happiness @ Sea And On Shore (9:55 – 10:45 AM)
MR. GREGG YAN, Award-winning environmentalist, writer, photographer, painter
It is imperative that the seafarers maintain a well-balanced lifestyle that combines work and play. Working and living at sea allows the seafarers the opportunity to indulge in interests and hobbies that contribute to the soundness of their mind and body. Sea-based migrants can explore photography, vlogging/blogging and other activities while on board. The waves must not stop you from pursuing the interests that you enjoy on shore.
- OPEN FORUM (10:50 - 11:15 AM)
- COFFEE BREAK (11:20 - 11:30 AM)
- Painless Payback: #HealthyYOLO (11:30 – 12:00 NN)
1. MR. JEBSEN GAMIDO, Executive Director, Positibong Marino Philippines Inc.
2. MS. DIVINE MASINSIN, Founder, Dynamic Duo Inc.
Staying healthy and fit is of paramount importance for seafarers to be able to perform their duties well. Our speakers will offer tips on how to stay physically fit and mentally strong while in the middle of the ocean that are suitable for the space, time and safety constraints of ships and their limited time on shore.
- Facing Your Demons: # Sink Or Swim (12:05 – 12:35 PM)
MR. MIKO LEGASPI, Certified Life Coach, Seafarer Life Coach Training Institute
Seafaring is a rigorous profession that demands physical and mental soundness. Being at sea and away from your love ones can take its toll on one’s mental health. For the one’s at home, the waiting and worrying can burden and strain the over-stretched family relations. This session will offer seafarers means to cope with their loneliness and social isolation and their young family members opportunities to cope with their feelings of confusion and abandonment.
- OPEN FORUM (12:40 - 1:00 PM)
- LUNCH (1:05 - 2:10 PM)
- The Modern Seafarer Millennial Now, Millionaire Later (2:15 – 2:45 PM)
MR. RAYMUND DANAO, Financial Literacy Coach
This session will provide millennial seafarers sound financial advice to help them achieve their dream of becoming financially secure at an early age. It will give them the confidence to know that they will be able to provide a better future to their families and secure themselves during and after a life at sea. This session will discuss financial planning for the young seafarers.
- The Digital World: Flip Or Swipe (2:50 – 3:20 PM)
The global connections are accelerated by digital enhancements. While we are all enamored by the benefits of the digital world, we must be reminded by the fundamental connections of society: the family. Gig and the Amazing Sampaguita Foundation Inc. (GASFI) emphasizes the benefits of reading at bedtime on migrant family bonds and literacy of family members. With the digital platforms available to seafarer families, we explore the role of these technological advancements in building family relations and reinforcing everyday practices.
- OPEN FORUM / WRAP UP (3:25 - 4:10 PM)
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