Social work as a profession in the Philippines emerged during the colonial era, as such it was heavily influenced by deficit and vulnerability perspectives. The early social work professionals who were educated in the United States became the first social work educators and relied on western perspectives. Social workers were saddled with rehabilitation and reconstruction efforts right after World War 2, that they glossed over the need to rediscover indigenous concepts and perspectives for the indigenization of the social work profession. Although the Filipino people have exhibited strengths through the years of colonization and disasters, it is only recently that strengths perspective entered the Philippine social work parlance via western reference books. This paper is an attempt to rediscover strengths perspective in the indigenous Filipino culture and use this towards a more culturally sensitive social work practice. ! "#$ ! %#"&’ !" # $"% &% ’ ( ) )*+ ’ , ’ $" ! - ./ ’./ ." 01 ’ , ’ $" ,2 ) )’./% 3443+ ! # . 5663 1 ." * ! # $"% &% ’% ( . * # !"% !"% **/ * !" # / 1 # * * !/ #* 7 - ./ //* )"% 3448+ " .* # . / )"% 3448+ # " *!* / )’./% 34439 "% 3448+