About us

Thankful Tuesday, 22 June, (10am-12pm SGT); Life Impact Coaching, hosted by Gerard Seow (www.7Modalities.com)

There are 7.7 billion people on Earth: 4.24 billion of them are on the Internet, 2.27 billion of them are active monthly on Facebook, 1 billion on Instagram. All of these people want your attention. They want you to hear them, see them, like them, talk to them, follow them, love them, understand them. But that’s not all. There’s 250 million businesses in the world: 150 million of them have websites, 70 million of them advertise online, using more than 5,000 tools (MarTech 5000, 2017).

How will your venture, business or ministry make an impact in 2021?

DAY 1 – June 22, 2021 – College of Education, Engineering and Architecture (250 students per batch)

You will meet bridge-builders and go-givers, architects of dreams, weavers of future realities who will challenge your assumptions and radically shift the paradigm from a consumer mentality to one of productivity and abundance.

Conference Registrar; Araceli Cortel & CapSU Deans & Guidance Counsellors, Capiz State University, Philippines

DAY ONE: Tues 22Jun

Event: CapSU Modalities

DAILY PROGRAM

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Zoom ID: https://zoom.us/j/514350226

9:30am-12:00pm

Discovery Diagnostics by GERARD SEOW

2:00-3:30pm Tess Castaneda (Day-1); David Ang (Day-2); Mel Turingan (Day-3)

2:30-3:00pm Rajaram (Day-1); Shirley Tan (Day-2); Chua YingHwee (Day-3)

3:00-3:30pm Cleofe Albiso (Day-1); Rowena Law (Day-2); Preecha Jengjalern (Day-3)

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Can’t get enough of modalities? Join us for Day-2 and Day-3 and explore what makes life worth living and why tomorrow will be better than yesterday.

DAY TWO: June 23, 2021 – College of Management and Industrial Technology Department

DAY THREE: June 24, 2021 – CapSU Dayao, Pontevedra, Sigma, Pilar, Burias, Mambusao, Dumarao and Tapaz.

“Every problem is an opportunity. The bigger the problem the bigger the opportunity” – Tina Seelig, Exec Dir. Stanford Technology Ventures Program

ABOUT YOUR TRAINER: GERARD SEOW (TCK)

A Third Culture Kid (TCK) is someone who is less restricted by cultural perimeters, because a boundary in one culture may not be a boundary in another – and they know it. Other than the basics of morality and decency, nothing is set in stone. One need only step into another culture and discover that things are quite different there. Therefore a TCK has a greater ability to take on board new concepts and ideas, since they do not experience limits as a hindrance in the same way as others do who grow up in a single culture under, what appear to them to be, immoveable ceilings.

They develop an adaptability to their surroundings, and therefore adaptability becomes one of their characteristics. Not being quite sure what is and isn’t possible in this new culture, since the parameters of that culture are unknown, unintuitive and therefore fluid, the TCK will assume everything is probably possible if it’s in their mind to do it, and they discover that much more is possible than they first expected – therefore an ‘all things are possible’ attitude also becomes one of their characteristics.

They do not grow up with the comfortably familiar around them, therefore they are less likely to live a comfortably familiar existence, reaching rather for another new experience similar to that which was presented to them as a youth, and with which they had to wrestle and find their place. In so doing, they have, like a bird exercising itself in the emergence from the egg, cultivated an inner strength during the process of becoming accustomised to the cultural climate. It is a victory over circumstances, and one which will equip them to do so again and again, if they are willing to continue to press on, as they had to do in the beginning. 

They do not experience fear as others do who remain within the status quo of their own culture. For to the TCK, the unknown holds a new venture, and one to be tried and tasted, another experience to increase understanding and knowledge of the world, another engagement with diversity. This approach simply widens, broadens and deepens them over and over, giving them a mountain top viewpoint of what could be achieved, and a vast advantage when a new and difficult circumstance besets them. They are already equipped to view it and tackle it in the light of these previous journeys which they have made willingly on previous occasions into that undiscovered destination. Having had to do it once, or twice, it holds much less power over them. 

We have, then, described a people with whom not all of us are acquainted. A people who have strengths and abilities, attitudes and characteristics that overcome boundaries naturally. A people who consider that all things are more possible than not. A people who have not become motionless in a place of familiar comfort, who do not live affected by fears to the same degree, but have experienced the overcoming of their circumstances by perseverance.

Not that all of this has been easy – feelings of being outcast and rejected have also followed them, and not everyone has accepted them into their culture. They have known mockery and jeering at times, unkindness and exclusion. Therefore times of sadness and sorrow are also features of someone who has undergone this initiation into adulthood. The longing for home, if they know where home is, and the desire to belong, are constant companions, as they search for the meaning and significance of their lives, looking for the place in life into which they fit.

And so it is, that this people may find themselves in very good company….

Jesus Christ left the culture of heaven, with which he was most familiar, and took up the culture of earth as his temporary home. Born as a Jew, he lived for the first seven years of his life in Egypt, where his parents too would have encountered a third culture experience. On their return, they lived in the outback of Galilee, a place of little credibility, and not a place with which he was at all acquainted. Though his desire was to be in his Father’s house, yet he stayed in Nazareth, where he may well have been remembered as the illegitimate child of Mary, and possibly treated with scorn. But right there, out of his comfort zone, away from his heavenly home, a Third Culture Kid, he grew in wisdom and stature. He came to those who were his own, but his own did not recognise him nor receive him, and indeed tried to dispose of him. He knew rejection, and experienced being an outcast. He had no place to lay his head, and was despised by those who claimed to serve his Father. Though he had a few faithful friends, like the many, they too abandoned him in his time of need. 

Yet none of this tainted his character. Though he wept to his father with loud cries and tears, he grew in strength throughout his life, constantly moving to new areas, new experiences, never fearful of the future, but always reaching out and moving onwards towards the next encounter, and the final earthly destiny. 

His actions knew no boundaries, and nothing could limit his power to change a situation for the better. Adapting to every surrounding in which he found himself, to him everything was possible. Refusing to stay within the relative comfort of Galilee, he journeyed again and again to Jerusalem, moving away from familiar safety and into another challenging environment to engage with those who he knew did not accept him, in the hope he might influence some. 

The culture’s outcasts were not far from him – he knew what they went through. Those who did not belong, did not fit – he knew their experience too. 

Yet he displayed the perfect example of crossing cultures with persevering love and dedication as he brought in the Canaanite woman, healed the Roman centurion’s slave, revived the priest’s daughter, received the prostitutes, touched the lepers, sat with the drinkers and befriended the traitor. No cultural boundary could hold him, for where he came from, no cultural boundaries exist. 

This example of limitless unboundaried reaching with love and sacrifice to people, and for people, is one to which we are all called as Christians. In Him, we know that all things are possible, and we can do all things through Christ who strengthens us. But for some, this reaching out is harder than for others. Many have remained inside their own culture too long, and allowed its ceiling to restrain them. 

This will not be the experience for the TCK however. They have been crossing boundaries from the beginning, and in that respect, this command to love our neighbours – whoever they are, whatever circumstance they are in and whatever culture they belong to – will be something that is familiar to them already. TCKs have learned long ago that inclusion and acceptance is paramount, that boundaries are not really there, and they have already discovered that, if it’s in their mind to do it, everything is indeed possible. For they know that if they persevere through difficult circumstances they will overcome – they did so themselves years ago.

If you are a TCK, be thankful and glad for what you have been given. Within your experience is a kind of gold that many do not have, and struggle to obtain. And though there may have been pain in the gaining of it, your reward is already with you. Your equipping is far beyond that of most. May your inspiration to use it be the equal of it.