Oren Pardes offers insight, support, and assistance to individuals and businesses in many areas as a Catalyst, Coach, and Consultant. Oren’s unique perspective often enhances and accelerates outcomes others desire.
Oren is a graduate of the Tour Director Institute and has worked as a Tour Leader for several industry leaders before starting his own company. Oren is familiar with many aspects of travel, tourism, hospitality – and what makes both “inbound” and “outbound” visits, tours, and activities enjoyable. Whether it’s just a day in the park, a night on the town, local weekend holiday, or an extended (national or international) adventure, Oren can help make your “vacation” and/or recreation experience more positive and memorable.
Oren Pardes is the creator of OrenPardes.com, Knead2Dance, Movin2gether, Travel Kneads, Bodywork For Working Bodies, Appreciating Your Assets, Math Made Easy, Bringing Out Your Best, Chameleon Color & Design, and Acronames.
A former Certified Orthopedic Technologist (OTC), Emergency Medical Technician (EMT), Nationally Certified Therapeutic Massage and Bodyworker (NCTMB), Dance Instructor, Tour Guide, and Holistic Health Practitioner (HHP), Oren has actually always been in the “transportation and transformation” business – helping people get from where they are to where they seek, dream, desire, best “fit”, and/or can make the most difference.
Oren is a veteran of both the United States Marine Corps and the United States Army; assigned to an Artillery unit (as a Unit Diary Clerk), Signals Intelligence (as a Linguist), and Special Forces (as a Medic). As a civilian, Oren has worked in orthopedic clinics and hospital emergency rooms (providing patient care), educational institutions and dance studios (teaching classes), factories, farms, and fields (as a machinist, fruit picker, and sheep herder), driving various vehicles (as a mover, adventure tour leader, and hot air balloon chase crew member), dealing blackjack, craps, and poker at local casino parties, mystery shopping, and reviewing business for Yelp – while maintaining his own holistic (body-mind) health care practice and growing online business and social media presence. Although currently single, Oren’s favorite role has always been as a husband and father.
Oren has been on the “staff” of many business and personal development seminars (for some of the country’s most well-known and successful speakers and trainers) and many people have commented that Oren‘s presence greatly enhanced their overall experience, understanding, ability to later implement ideas, and obtain results – encouraging Oren to offer himself as a Health, Business, and Relationship Coach, Consultant, Trainer, and Speaker (educating, entertaining, and enlightening others with “insider information” and his often uniquely insightful understanding and perspective on a wide variety of topics).
Oren actively advocates and encourages awareness, appreciation, and acknowledgment of innate inherent beauty, value, and significance – recognizing or redefining everything and everyone as a (valuable) “asset” and/or “resource” so that there are no “weeds”, no “waste”, no “wanting” and no need for wars based upon (fear of) “scarcity”.
Oren often writes about “appreciating your assets” and bringing out your best – and frequently uses dance as a metaphor – emphasizing connections, interdependence, and creating opportunities for synergy (with potential for all to be better – together).
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