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Joel Vorensky

Joel Vorensky embodies the understanding that wisdom comes through doing. His first "doing" was a childhood job shoveling snow. Since then he has worked as a typist; as a taxicab driver in New York City and San Diego, California; as a teacher of both adults and children in private and public schools in the United States and abroad; and as a retail salesman; registered securities representative; bank officer; insurance broker; publishing; senior public health advisor, immunization and communicable diseases; bookkeeper; beekeeper; baker; agricultural laborer; crowd control officer; ice cream cashier; hospital, liquor, and mailroom clerk; counselor, and restaurant busboy. Teaching and peer counseling (integrative emphasis has been a consistent theme in his life; languages (English as a Second Language, Swedish, Spanish, and Hebrew) as well as Medical Terminology, Computer Software, and Marketing. He has taught at the American Language Institute at San Diego State University, National University, California, and adult detention centers. Mr. Vorensky has a thirty-four year background as a peer co-counselor in English and Scandinavian languages. Joel grew up in Queens, Brooklyn, and New York City. He lived in Scandinavia for seven years and spent several years in the State of Israel living in the desert. For the past nineteen years he has made his home in San Diego, California. He has a daughter now grown. Since 1968 he has been on a conscious path to heal the pain that began in the trauma of his birth, a path that has taken him on an odyssey through the various personal growth and healing modalities available in the Eastern and Western world. Joel holds a degree in Business, Scandinavian Teaching Certification in Early Childhood, California teaching credentials in multiple subjects, adult education, and community college credentials in English and Business. Mr. Vorensky’s work was in Counseling Psychology and he has just obtained a Master´s Degree in Human Behavior. He is the author of I Dare to Heal with Compassionate Love published in 2001. The eclectic nature of his experience has afforded him social exposure leading to significant insights as to "what makes people tick." In his second book he freely shares his wisdom with all who care to listen and apply it to the task of improving their own lives.