A screenshot of the event showing an official Ikigai 2020 poster with the participants from different universities on the right frame, taken on the day of the webinar via Zoom.
Screenshot by: Josh Bryan Ramos
Caption by: Hannah Jane Matol
In its pursuit to train students to become well-rounded individuals through academic and non-academic activities, 15 students from the College of Arts and Humanities (CAH) of the University of the Immaculate Conception (UIC) attended the first-ever online IKIGAI 2020: Mindanao Intercollegiate Convention on December 4, 2020 through a Zoom meeting.
It was spearheaded by the Humanities and Letters (HumLet) Executive Council of the Ateneo de Davao University (AdDU) to celebrate the Wolves Week 2020 which is to empower and promote the courses and disciplines of HumLet, and to impart knowledge regarding Ikigai.
On its highlight, the author of the award-winning nonfiction essay “Sapay Koma” in Don Carlos Palanca Memorial Awards for Literature 2008 and professor at the University of the Philippines-Mindanao, Jhoanna Lynn Cruz, emphasized the importance of knowing one’s purpose or Ikigai.
In her discourse with the participants, Cruz defined that Ikigai is a Japanese term meaning “life’s worth” and clarified that this concept is “realized” rather than “found.”
“I don’t think ‘find’ is the appropriate word for Ikigai because ‘finding it’ suggests you lost it… You haven’t lost it,” Cruz asserted.
“The second implication if you say you find it, it is something that is outside of you… It is not outside you… For me, ‘realize’ is the correct term, for this means that it is already inside you, and you have to realize it in your own time,” she added.
Complementing Cruz’s talk, Tracy “Ace” Villanueva, the AdDU Secretary to the Office of the Executive Vice President, underscored the versatility of the HumLet students as she presented the possible career opportunities in this field and gave tips about the necessary actions of preparing for and being in the professional world.
The online convention ended with a short panel discussion of representatives from various schools. Other than UIC and AdDU, students from Cor Jesu College (CJC), Xavier University (XU), and Ateneo de Zamboanga University (AdZU) also took part in the said event reaching a total of more than 60 attendees.
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