St Francis Xavier Major Seminary Community discovered how different thinking and behavioural preferences of individuals might explore their faith differently, and hence have different approaches towards prayer or striving for their core values. The recognistion that each person have different norms, has allowed the participants to now react differently from the past and allow for better interactions and lower misunderstanding of intents. Moving forward, the community will continue to use Emergenetics to discover different interpretations of the community’s core values which leads to greater learning and appreciation of diversity.

“… allowed me to see…what I might consider as the norm might not necessarily be the norm for others…enabling me to react differently from the past.”

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Dexter Chua, Seminarian

As Master Associate and Deputy CEO of Emergenetics International – Asia Pacific, Colin is involved in the overall strategic planning, business development and growth of the company in Asia-Pacific. Colin also conducts Certification (train-the-trainer) Workshops throughout Asia-Pacific, and oversees the further training, development and growth of our Associates. Colin has assisted in or conducted over 20 Certification Workshops, in addition to a myriad of Emergenetics-based workshops, seminars and talks for various corporate, government, schools and non-profit organisations. To date, he has trained over 1600 people in Singapore, Malaysia, Indonesia and UK. Colin has also used Emergenetics in his other passion – developing the potential of young people. Apart from work, he has been serving his church youth community since 1996 and from 2009, applied Emergenetics to the formation of young people, helping them understand their thinking and behaviour preferences in order for them to excel in an area they would have a natural affinity towards.

St Francis Xavier Major Seminary was established in 1983 by a decision of the Catholic - Bishops' Conference of Malaysia-Singapore-Brunei made in 1982. It is a Diocesan Seminary under the direct jurisdiction of the Archbishop of Singapore. Students in the Seminary who complete the full course in philosophy and theology can sit for the Baccalaureate in Theology on their journey towards Priesthood. In the light of the Seminary's Mission Statement "Fidelity to our identity as Teacher, Minister and Leader through Integral formation and growth in pastoral charity and Apostolic zeal, candidates for the ministerial priesthood in the Catholic Church are given an integral formation which encompasses a philosophical and theological education, human, spiritual and pastoral formation.