24/08/2026
๐๐๐๐๐๐๐ | ๐๐๐๐๐๐ ๐๐๐๐: ๐๐๐ฒ๐จ๐ง๐ ๐ญ๐ก๐ ๐๐ข๐ญ๐ฅ๐, ๐๐ง๐ญ๐จ ๐ญ๐ก๐ ๐๐จ๐ซ๐ค
On August 21, 2026, ๐๐๐๐๐๐: ๐๐ก๐ ๐๐จ๐ฅ๐ฅ๐๐ ๐ ๐๐๐๐๐๐ซ๐ฌ๐ก๐ข๐ฉ ๐๐ฎ๐ฆ๐ฆ๐ข๐ญ gathered student leaders of Brokenshire College, Inc. for a day of formation and application centered on Inspire, Equip, Innovate, and Showcase.
The summit's activities moved from personal reflection and role-specific training to problem-solving and project pitching, placing leadership not merely as a position to hold but as a responsibility to act upon.
๐ฐ๐ ๐๐๐๐๐๐ ๐๐๐๐๐๐ ๐๐๐ ๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐
The summit opened with Bishop Hamuel G. Tequis, MDiv, who grounded leadership in faith, integrity, and service.
For Bishop Tequis, leadership means creating opportunities to serve rather than waiting for them, particularly opportunities that respond to the needs of the poor.
โ๐บ๐๐๐๐ก ๐๐๐๐๐๐๐ ๐๐๐'๐ก ๐ค๐๐๐ก ๐๐๐ ๐๐๐๐๐๐ก๐ข๐๐๐ก๐๐๐ ; ๐กโ๐๐ฆ ๐๐๐๐๐ก๐ ๐๐๐๐๐๐ก๐ข๐๐๐ก๐๐๐ ๐ก๐ ๐ ๐๐๐ฃ๐โ๐๐ ๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐ฆ ๐กโ๐ ๐๐๐๐.โ
The opening message established the foundation for the day's discussions: leadership begins with a willingness to serve and the courage to make responsible decisions.
๐๐ง๐จ๐ฐ๐ข๐ง๐ ๐๐ก๐จ ๐๐จ๐ฎ ๐๐ซ๐ ๐๐๐๐จ๐ซ๐ ๐๐จ๐ฎ ๐๐๐๐
This foundation was further developed during the INSPIRE session led by Dr. Ramil Cubelo.
Dr. Cubelo directed student leaders inward, emphasizing self-awareness as a starting point for effective leadership. Understanding one's identity, strengths, and limitations, he explained, influences how one can serve others.
โLeadership has no gender,โ he emphasized, while also highlighting the 3CsโCompassion, Commitment, and Consistencyโand the 4Cs of 21st-century skills: Critical Thinking, Communication, Creativity, and Collaboration.
Through an interactive discussion, participants identified leadership qualities they already possessed, including communication, competence, compassion, reliability, humility, and resilience. They also identified areas they needed to develop, such as discipline, confidence, self-awareness, and willingness.
๐จ๐ ๐๐๐ ๐๐๐๐๐๐ ๐๐ ๐๐๐ ๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐ ๐๐๐ ๐ ๐๐๐๐๐๐ ๐๐
๐๐:
โIf you don't know who you are, there will be limitations to how you serve others.โ
๐๐ก๐ ๐ฐ๐จ๐ซ๐ค ๐๐๐ก๐ข๐ง๐ ๐๐๐ข๐ง๐ ๐ก๐๐๐ซ๐
Leadership then moved from self-awareness to communication.
During SPARK: CommuniKwentoโStorytelling as Communication Strategy, Mr. Al Francis B. Verbal, LPT, challenged student communicators to reconsider how organizations reach their audiences.
Student organizations may use Facebook as a primary communication channel, but Verbal emphasized that importance does not automatically translate into attention. An announcement can be important and still be ignored. For students to care, communication must connect with their experiences.
Verbal encouraged organizations to find relatable stories, understand their audiences, and discover the right angle for every message. Instead of simply reporting what is happening, communicators were challenged to explain why it matters.
โ๐ฝ๐ข๐ ๐ก ๐๐๐๐๐ข๐ ๐ ๐๐ก ๐๐ ๐๐๐๐๐๐ก๐๐๐ก ๐๐๐๐ ๐'๐ก ๐๐ข๐ก๐๐๐๐ก๐๐๐๐๐๐ฆ ๐๐๐๐ ๐๐๐๐๐๐ ๐๐๐๐ ๐๐๐๐ข๐ก ๐๐ก. ๐๐๐ข ๐๐๐๐๐๐ก ๐๐๐๐ ๐๐๐๐ข๐ก ๐ ๐๐๐๐กโ๐๐๐ ๐ฆ๐๐ข ๐๐๐'๐ก ๐๐๐๐๐ก๐ ๐ก๐.โ
His advice was straightforward: ditch the obvious, explore the โwhyโ behind the โwhat,โ and answer the โso what?โ
The lesson placed communication within the larger responsibility of leadership: information is only useful when it reaches people in a way they understand.
๐๐ข๐ฌ๐ญ๐๐ง๐ข๐ง๐ ๐ข๐ฌ ๐ฉ๐๐ซ๐ญ ๐จ๐ ๐ซ๐๐ฉ๐ซ๐๐ฌ๐๐ง๐ญ๐ข๐ง๐
At the Proculo Chapel, VOICE brought student leadership back to its constituents.
Led by Mr. Rodne T. Baslot, the session focused on active listening, student advocacy, and making decisions based on the interests of the people being represented.
Mr. Baslot emphasized that leaders must look beyond personal agendas and constantly consider how their decisions affect students.
Rather than relying on assumptions or personalities, he urged leaders to examine facts.
โ๐๐จ๐ง'๐ญ ๐ญ๐ซ๐ฎ๐ฌ๐ญ ๐ญ๐ก๐ ๐ฆ๐๐ง, ๐ญ๐ซ๐ฎ๐ฌ๐ญ ๐ญ๐ก๐ ๐๐๐๐ญ๐ฌ.
The session introduced nine methods for effective leadership: listening, observation, helpful questions, encouragement, synthesizing, mutual learning, flexibility, timing, and planning.
For Thea Dorothy Veroy, a fourth-year representative of the Philippine Nursing Students Association, the session reinforced a responsibility often overlooked by student leaders.
โ๐๐ ๐๐๐'๐ก ๐๐ข๐ ๐ก ๐ ๐๐๐๐๐ฆ ๐ ๐๐๐ฃ๐ ๐๐ข๐ ๐๐๐๐ ๐ก๐๐ก๐ข๐๐๐ก๐ โ๐ค๐ ๐๐๐๐ ๐ก๐ ๐๐ ๐ ๐กโ๐๐ ๐๐๐ ๐กโ๐๐๐ ๐ฃ๐๐๐๐๐ .โ
For Mr. Baslot, however, learning to listen and become selfless is a process. Students must first know themselves, move beyond their comfort zones, and learn to prioritize the interests of their constituents.
๐๐๐๐๐๐ซ๐ฌ๐ก๐ข๐ฉ ๐๐ฅ๐ฌ๐จ ๐๐๐ฉ๐ฉ๐๐ง๐ฌ ๐๐๐ก๐ข๐ง๐ ๐ญ๐ก๐ ๐๐๐๐ง๐๐ฌ
While some leaders represent organizations publicly, others carry responsibilities that are less visible but equally essential.
During the Stewardship Workshop, Mr. Roldan Ganados, CPA, worked with business managers, treasurers, assistant treasurers, and auditors on budgeting, spending, and liquidation.
The session began with practical instruction on Excel and financial record-keeping before moving into responsible management of organizational funds.
Mr. Ganados reminded participants:
โ๐ด ๐๐ข๐๐๐๐ก ๐๐ ๐ ๐๐๐๐, ๐๐๐ก ๐ ๐ก๐๐๐๐๐ก ๐กโ๐๐ก ๐๐ข๐ ๐ก ๐๐ ๐๐ข๐๐๐ฆ ๐ ๐๐๐๐ก.โ
The lesson was not simply about numbers. It was about accountability.
Receipts, supporting documents, approved allocations, and proper liquidation provide evidence that organizational resources were used responsibly.
โ๐๐ ๐๐๐๐๐๐๐ก๐ = ๐๐ ๐๐๐๐๐.โ
For organization secretaries, meanwhile, the Archives Workshop led by Mr. John Lois S. Parrera focused on another form of accountability: preserving information.
Mr. Parrera emphasized that secretaries are responsible for endorsements, letters, memorandums, minutes, reports, and other records that allow organizations to function and remember what they have accomplished.
โ๐ด ๐ ๐๐๐๐๐ก๐๐๐ฆ'๐ ๐ค๐๐๐ ๐๐๐๐ ๐'๐ก ๐๐๐ ๐คโ๐๐ ๐ ๐๐๐๐ข๐๐๐๐ก ๐๐ ๐๐๐๐๐๐๐ก๐๐. ๐ด ๐๐๐๐ข๐๐๐๐ก โ๐๐ ๐ฃ๐๐๐ข๐ ๐๐๐๐ฆ ๐คโ๐๐ ๐๐ก ๐๐๐ ๐๐ ๐๐๐ข๐๐ ๐คโ๐๐ ๐กโ๐ ๐๐๐๐๐๐๐ง๐๐ก๐๐๐ ๐๐๐๐๐ ๐๐ก.โ
Anchored on โRecord, Communicate, Coordinate, Preserve,โ the session showed how documentation becomes part of an organization's continuity.
The different workshops may have focused on different positions, but they shared one principle: every leadership role carries a responsibility to someone else.
๐๐ก๐๐ง ๐๐๐ฆ๐ ๐ญ๐ก๐ ๐ฉ๐ซ๐จ๐๐ฅ๐๐ฆ
By afternoon, the summit stopped asking students what they had learned and started asking what they could do with it.
At the Robert Black Amphitheatre, Ma'am Maria Fe B. Calis opened the afternoon activities with a reminder that student leadership should extend beyond the campus organization and toward the wider community.
โThis is the beginning of becoming a positive influence in our community.โ
The Project Tree Implementation placed student leaders before an institutional concern involving the cleanliness, comfort rooms, and water facilities of Brokenshire College.
Using Problem Tree and Solution Tree frameworks, participants were asked to identify the roots of the problem, its causes, and its effects before developing possible solutions.
The exercise required them to look beyond the most visible symptom.
Instead of asking only what was wrong, they had to ask why it was happening.
SASE, Nursing, Allied Health, and SBISM presented their collaborative problem and solution trees, putting into practice the evidence-based and strategic thinking discussed during the morning.
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๐ซ๐จ๐ฆ ๐๐๐๐๐ฌ ๐ญ๐จ ๐๐จ๐ฆ๐๐ญ๐ก๐ข๐ง๐ ๐๐ก๐๐ญ ๐๐จ๐ฎ๐ฅ๐ ๐๐จ๐ซ๐ค
The next challenge was the Project Implementation and Pitching Activity, led by George Kennith Centino.
This time, the students had to transform their analysis into a project proposal.
The atmosphere became increasingly intense. Teams brainstormed, divided tasks, revised presentations, and rushed to meet the deadline. The lessons from the morning suddenly became practical: communication was needed to coordinate, collaboration was needed to finish, critical thinking was needed to refine ideas, and strategic planning was needed to make the proposals workable.
The final projects were presented before a panel composed of Mr. John Lois S. Parrera, Mr. Jude Fabiosa Jr., and Mx. Ayla Marie D. Smith.
Each department defended its proposal and explained how its project could help address concerns affecting students and the institution.
Allied Health emerged as champion and received โฑ18,000 in funding for its proposed project. SASE placed first runner-up, Nursing second runner-up, and SBISM third runner-up.
The rankings determined the winners, but the activity demonstrated something larger: student leaders were given the opportunity to move from identifying problems to proposing solutions.
๐๐ก๐๐ญ ๐ซ๐๐ฆ๐๐ข๐ง๐ฌ ๐๐๐ญ๐๐ซ ๐ญ๐ก๐ ๐ฌ๐ฎ๐ฆ๐ฆ๐ข๐ญ
IGNITE 2026 did not present leadership as a single skill.
It presented it as a chain of responsibilities.
Knowing yourself makes service more intentional.
Listening makes representation more meaningful.
Communication makes leadership understood.
Stewardship makes it accountable.
Documentation makes it sustainable.
And action gives all of it a purpose.
The summit's discussions on sustainable impact further challenged student leaders to look beyond one-time activities and consider whether their initiatives respond to actual needs and can create lasting value.
In the end, leadership was not measured by who spoke the loudest or who held the highest position.
It was measured by what happened when students were given a problem and asked to do something about it.
The day began with a call to serve.
It ended with student leaders defending solutions.
And somewhere between those two moments, leadership moved from a title into action.
Story by: Mary Eliz Tan, Radsmil Ali, Christian Mayko Oraiz, Shaira Ann Agad, and Maritom Noniscan
Photos via: Franchee Bacroya, Mariel Torres, Bryan Gabriel Arevalo, and Travis Nasser Kalang
READ: https://bcthelamp.medium.com/leadership-summit-2026-5bd7b84b73bb
