Talk 1 - All-Around Player
Being Your Family's Champion
Speaker: Fr. Dennis Paez
Talk 2 - Huddle Up! (Merged Talk)
Let's Talk to our Kids
Speaker: Dr. Queena Lee-Chua
Queena Lee-Chua, is a professor, columnist and, author. She has written books and articles about S & T focusing on her goal of transforming science and math learning, making it easy, fun, and understandable through simpler language and bringing it to media such as print, radio and as well as TV, online, and interpersonal audiences. Lee-Chua currently teaches for the mathematics department of Ateneo de Manila University.
Rise Above the Challenger
Speakers: Allan and Maribel Dionisio
Maribel has been happily married to Dr. Allan R. Dionisio for 24 years. They have 3 wonderful children, Rafael, 23, David, 21, and Angelica,16.
Maribel resigned from the corporate world in 1986 when she gave birth to Rafael and pursued parenthood. However, Allan said she might not be happy as a full-time
housewife. So she worked part-time for Fr. Ruben Tanseco, SJ, a
Marriage Counselor, in setting up the Center for Family Ministries
Foundation (CEFAM). Unknowingly, Maribel began her second career in Family Ministry. In 1990 she completed her Professional Diploma Course in Family Ministries with Allan dear as her classmate. Maribel began her counseling career in family ministries at CEFAM and continued to complete her MA Theological Studies, major in Family Ministries, from Ateneo de Manila Univeristy.
Maribel gave birth to their lovely daughter, Angelica in 1993. During this time, Maribel was counseling Marital, Pre-marital and Family Cases. She also was giving talks on Parenting. She
was an active Marriage Counselor at CEFAM for over 10 years, when she
moved to the Center for Health and Creative Arts (CHACRA), also as a
Marriage Counselor.
Since 2004, Maribel has been with the RCW Foundation (Reintegration for Care and Wholeness) also as a Marriage and Family Counselor. She is also a Parenting Consultant and Columnist for the Metro Working Mom Magazine. She has been an active Parent Representative for her sons class at Ateneo. In March 2003, she helped organize the 1st Ateneo Family Congress for the Grade School and High School Parents. In August 2004, she launched her first book, co-authored with Dr. Queena Lee Chua, entitled, “Helping
our Children do Well in School” (10 Successful strategies from the
Parents Best Practices Study of the Ateneo de Manila High School). This book received the National Book Award in 2005. Maribel co-authors with Dr. Mike Asis a second book (Anvil 2006) “I’ve
been Dating, now what?”, a guide for college students and single
professionals about love and relationships. In February 2007, “Magaling
ang Pinoy,” Public School Parents best practices was launched,
co-authored with Queena Lee Chua and Nesy Fernandez. Currently, she is
the Parenting Expert for the Umagang Kay Ganda Channel 2-TV program
every Wednesday (since August 2007). She is also a columnist of Proud to
be Pinoy magazine and the CARE Magazine. Maribel is now working on the relationship book for high school students, entitled “I have a Crush, now what?” In November 2008, Maribel set-up the Love Institute to give more focus on Marriage and Parenting Curriculum.
Together, Allan and Maribel are still involved with the Discovery Weekend, preparing couples for marriage as Team Speakers and Lay Chaplain. They also give talks on Parenting, Marriage and Family. Occasionally their children join them in talks, as added resource persons. Both parents of Allan and Maribel were very involved in the Family Ministry – the Christian Family Movement (Poning & Valing Dionisio; Sito & Sony Sison).
