{"id":24821,"date":"2019-08-05T06:00:02","date_gmt":"2019-08-04T22:00:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/event\/?p=24821"},"modified":"2019-08-05T18:52:17","modified_gmt":"2019-08-05T10:52:17","slug":"join-the-seafarer-family-international-congress-this-august-2019","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/event\/2019\/08\/05\/join-the-seafarer-family-international-congress-this-august-2019\/","title":{"rendered":"Join The Seafarer Family International Congress This August 2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><strong>The Seafarer Family International Congress<\/strong> aims to open the issues relevant to seafarers and their families.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">The congress will be held on <strong>August 14 &amp; 15, 2019<\/strong>, at the<strong> Fiesta Pavilion, The Manila Hotel, Manila<\/strong>, following the\u00a0theme, <strong>&#8220;All Aboard: Seafaring Families Engaging the World for Sustainable Well-Being.&#8221;<\/strong>\u00a0The congress is set to feature seafarers, and government and maritime industry leaders who will spearhead discussions and collaborate on best practices.<\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/seafarercongress\/photos\/pb.1271030909701528.-2207520000.1564995319.\/1362160183921933\/?type=3&#038;theater<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">On the first day of plenary sessions, August 14, Lu Aung, an executive member of the Independent Federation of Myanmar Seafarers will open with a talk on<strong> &#8220;Family Programs and Best Practices.<\/strong>&#8221; The following talks and discussions will also be held on the first day:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify\"><strong>&#8220;Mental Health Awareness: Kumusta Kabaro?&#8221;<\/strong> by Paula Manalo, life coach and mental health advocate<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify\"><strong>&#8220;Happy Family, Happy Seafarer #SustainableWellbeing #HappyCrew&#8221;<\/strong> by Ben Bailey, director of advocacy and regional engagement for The Mission to Seafarers<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">On the second day of the congress, the Adult sessions will begin with a talk on<strong> &#8220;Learning to Say No: Setting Boundaries in Family Life&#8221;<\/strong> by the President of the Women&#8217;s International Shipping and Trading Association, Atty. Imelda Barcelona. The following talks will also be held on the second day:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify\"><strong>&#8220;Riding the Storm: Shifting Family Relations&#8221;<\/strong> by Maria Cynthia Javier-Gavino of Ateneo de Manila University<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify\"><strong>&#8220;Sandwich Generation: &#8220;Parenting&#8221; your Parents and Kids&#8221;<\/strong> by Rebecca Mendez, a spiritual counselor<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify\"><strong>&#8220;Truth and Myths of Seafarer Families: What you didn&#8217;t know then which you should know by now&#8221;<\/strong> by Iris Baguilat, President of D\u00f6hle Seafront Crewing (Manila), Inc.,<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify\"><strong>&#8220;Family Stories: Sharing for Healing&#8221;<\/strong> by Dr. Sena Oksuz of the Istanbul Sabahattin Zaim University<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify\"><strong>&#8220;Be the Captain of Your Life: Choosing your Admiral&#8221;<\/strong> by Jess and Mercy Ferrer of Couples for Christ Global Mission Foundation, Inc.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/seafarercongress\/videos\/2242204965900632\/<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Talks for the youth will also take place on the second day of the congress. The sessions for the youth are as follows:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify\"><strong>&#8220;Sino ako? Tanggap ko ba?: Belonging to a Seafarer Family&#8221;<\/strong> by Jayeel Cornelio, program director of Ateneo de Manila University&#8217;s Development Studies Program<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify\"><strong>&#8220;Career at Sea: Passion or Pressure&#8221;<\/strong> by Capt. Maria Kristina Javellana, master mariner of the Pacific Ocean Manning, Inc. V.SHIPS<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify\"><strong>&#8220;#Lit: Happiness @ Sea and on Shore&#8221;<\/strong> by Gregg Yan, award-winning environmentalist and artist<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify\"><strong>&#8220;Painless Payback: #HealthyYOLO&#8221;<\/strong> by Jebsen Gamido, executive director of Positibong Marino Philippines Inc. and Divine Masinsin, the founder of Dynamic Duo, Inc.<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify\"><strong>&#8220;Facing Your Demons: Sink or Swim<\/strong>&#8221; by Miko Legaspi, seafarer and certified life coach for the Life Coach Training Institute<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">The youth sessions will wrap up with a talk by Carlo &#8220;Sandro&#8221; Gonzalez of the Marino Partylist with the talk<strong> &#8220;The Modern Seafarer: Millennial Now, Millionaire Later&#8221;<\/strong> and a talk on <strong>&#8220;The Digital World: Flip or Swipe&#8221;<\/strong> by the PTC-CSJ Foundation executive director.<\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/seafarercongress\/photos\/a.1285457898258829\/1355762967894988\/?type=3&#038;theater<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Join the discussion and listen in on the crucial family issues to be discussed at The Seafarer Family International Congress<strong>\u00a0<\/strong>2019. The event will be held at the Fiesta Pavilion, The Manila Hotel, Manila on August 14 &amp; 15, 2019. Registration can be done\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/seafarerfamily.typeform.com\/to\/Rc9YG7\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><em>For more information, you may visit The Seafarer Family International Congress&#8217; Official <a href=\"http:\/\/www.seafarerfamily.com\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\">Website<\/a> and Official <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/seafarercongress\/\" target=\"_blank\">Facebook page<\/a>.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt\"><strong>Details<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><strong>What:\u00a0<\/strong>The Seafarer Family International Congress<strong>\u00a0<\/strong>2019<br \/>\n<strong>Where:\u00a0<\/strong>Fiesta Pavilion, The Manila Hotel, Rizal Park, Ermita, Manila<br \/>\n<strong>When:\u00a0<\/strong>August 14 &amp; 15, 2019<br \/>\n<strong>Ticket Information:\u00a0<\/strong>Registration for <strong>one (1) delegate<\/strong> is <strong>Php 5,000<\/strong>. Interested participants may register <a href=\"https:\/\/seafarerfamily.typeform.com\/to\/Rc9YG7\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<br \/>\n<strong>Website: <\/strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.seafarerfamily.com\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\">seafarerfamily.com<\/a><br \/>\n<strong>Facebook:\u00a0<\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/seafarercongress\/\" target=\"_blank\">facebook.com\/seafarercongress<\/a><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt\"><em>This is a press release. Edits were made prior to publishing.<br \/>\nFeatured image grabbed from the official Facebook page of the Seafarer Family International Congress.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>To be held from August 14 to 15 in Manila, the Seafarer Family International Congress aims to open the issues relevant to seafarers and their families.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":24823,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8349,1336],"tags":[8362,8363,8364,8357,8359,8360,8361,8358],"class_list":["post-24821","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-congress","category-manila-hotel","tag-seafarer-families","tag-seafarer-families-ph","tag-seafarer-families-philippines","tag-seafarer-family-international-congress","tag-seafarers","tag-seafarers-ph","tag-seafarers-philippines","tag-the-seafarer-family-international-congress"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/event\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24821","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/event\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/event\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/event\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/event\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24821"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/event\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24821\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24824,"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/event\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24821\/revisions\/24824"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/event\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24823"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/event\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24821"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/event\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24821"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/event\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24821"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}