Oren Pardes

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Oren Pardes offers insight, support, and assistance to individuals and businesses in many areas and many ways as a Coach, Catalyst, and Consultant. As an eccentric enigmatic iconoclast, Oren’s unique perspective often enhances and accelerates outcomes others desire.

Oren is creator of OrenPardes.com; Knead2Dance; Movin2gether; Bodywork For Working Bodies; Travel Kneads; BringingOutYourBest; Appreciating Your Assets; Help Me Help You Help Others; Just Me, Myself, and I; HABU4u; Acronames; Positive Language Learning; Daily Declarations; Math Made Easy; and Chameleon Color & Design – as well as an independent representative for MediConsult, Elements For Life, Nikken, and Send Out Cards.

Oren is also a mystery shopper; marketing consultant; business, health, and relationship coach; public speaker; and writer of blogs and reviews – sharing his education, experience, and unique perspective for the benefit of other people. Oren strives to engage, educate, entertain, explain, edify, elevate, encourage, emancipate, empower, and exemplify what to emulate.

Although Oren’s past “credentials” include Certified Orthopedic Technologist (OTC), Emergency Medical Technician (EMT), Nationally Certified Therapeutic Massage and Bodyworker (NCTMB), and Holistic Health Practitioner (HHP), Oren has really been more in the “transportation” and “transformation” business – helping people get from where they are to where they desire, fit best, and make the most difference. Help Me Help You Help Others!

Rather than a leader seeking followers, Oren is more like a lighthouse: serving as a guide to help others find their way – also often warning others to avoid known dangers. We all emit light and reflect it. Oren seeks to not just illuminate but also to acknowledge, appreciate, amplify the light of others (so it shines brighter, clearer, and reflects more of what is needed to be seen – not just in darkness but all the time – especially when looking in the mirror.

Oren is often a teacher – but not a preacher, professor, or a prophet. We are ALL teachers (whether we realize it or not), We can also learn from everyone we meet and everything we do.

More of a “guide on your side” than some “sage on a stage”, Oren tends to be a strategic situationally-aware tactical practical pragmatic strategic counter-intuitive thinker whose priority is on who and what he can personally influence and impact – as a “thought shepherd”. If you need someone to “spot” you, “hold space” for you, hold your hand, hold you accountable, or help you see, understand, and do what you might not be able to on your own, consider contacting Oren and asking for his insight, opinion, or assistance. He is usually happy to help.

Oren has helped staff 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 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 is curious and inquisitive by nature and often wants to find out more than most other people seem interested in. He often notices things that other people somehow overlook or do not pay attention to – and also often seems to have a different perspective about things others take for granted. What may seem obvious to him often isn’t to others. Oren also often seeks to improve things – and seems able to see or find existing or potential problems, solutions, or ways of doing things better that many others don’t, won’t, or can’t – probably because he doesn’t simply assume, accept, or comply with everything without some insightful question, reflection, and/or action.

Some people see auras; most people don’t. Some people see dead people and/or ghosts; most people don’t. Some people can read “the writing on the wall”; most people don’t even see it. Oren often seems to see the “elephant in the room” and/or when “the emperor has no clothes” – when many people either don’t or pretend they can’t – and to be more willing and able than seem most others to speak up and point out what still others can’t or won’t.

Some say Oren has the “Gift of Challenge”. He is not afraid of confrontation, experimentation, or being (called) wrong – and at times feels compelled to stand/speak up for what he believes is right (especially when others can’t or won’t) rather than just “go along to get along” (without question or effort to prevent, repair, or at least improve what is broken, harmful, doesn’t work, doesn’t serve, or could easily be much better).

Oren’s favorite word and concept is appreciation. Oren seeks to add value and virtue – not advice (or a hidden agenda). Oren offers his experience and perspective – for the benefit of others – with integrity, wisdom, balance, trust, openness, and cooperation as his guiding principles. His sharing is a reflection of his caring. Help Me Help You Help Others!

People and things are better together in complementary combination. Although self-reliance is often desirable, harmony and synergy are only possible during partnership/teamwork. Oren regards everything and everyone in terms of (existing and potential) connection(s) and relationship(s) – and consider consciousness, commitment, consistency, communication, and cooperation more than confidence and competence.

Oren often thinks about “re-defining resources” and “appreciating your assets” – emphasizing (multiple) connections, interdependence, and potential for mutually beneficial synergy (where the whole is more than the sum of the parts, and each part is individually better together bringing out the best in each other).

Oren 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”.

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Languages interest and intrigue Oren – especially how they can affect how we think, interpret, and express ideas and emotions – influencing interaction with others around us. He pays attention to what is said (how) – and what is not. Comfortably conversant in multiple languages, and often having much to say, Oren is an astute active attentive listener.

“Trying to get by being quiet and shy in a world of push and shove”, Oren is also often willing and able to “boldly go where no man has gone before” and to say and do what is “right” and “good”, “needed” and “appropriate” – respecting “rights” but remembering “responsibilities”.

Oren is a veteran of the United States Marine Corps and the United States Army (Reserve). Oren served in 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 hospital emergency rooms, surgical suites, and orthopedic clinics, and taught for a variety of educational and training institutions – in addition to maintaining his own holistic (body) health care practice.

Oren has a Class A commercial driver’s license – and has worked as a mover, a tour guide, and a hot air balloon chase crew member – as well as a ballroom dance instructor, classroom teacher, printer/binder, mystery shopper, bartender, fruit picker, machinist, and sheep herder – and is often asked to deal craps, poker, roulette, or blackjack at local casino parties. Although currently single, Oren’s favorite role of all in life so far has been as a husband and father.