About Ryan Oelke

Executive + Leadership Coach, Meditation and Dharma Teacher

Ryan is an Executive Coach at Stagen, an Integral Leadership Academy based in Dallas, Texas; co-founder and teacher at Buddhist Geeks; and a Senior Teacher in Judith Blackstone’s Realization Process. Ryan also has an MSEd in counseling psychology and 20+ years experience in meditation, particularly in the Tibetan Buddhist and Dzogchen lineages.

Snapshot

• Executive + Leadership Coach, Stagen
• Co-Founder and Teacher at Buddhist Geeks
• Senior Teacher in Judith Blackstone’s The Realization Process
  • Nondual Meditation, Healing Ground, Embodiment
  • Certified in Advanced Trauma Repair
• MSEd Counseling Psychology
• 25 years of meditation practice and study
• Founder, Teacher at Awakening in Life
• Speaks Spanish – Certified Advanced in ACTFL
• Former: Founder, CEO of PowerUp Productions
• 8 Years in Residence Life at multiple universities
• BA Spanish, Music Performance, Sound Engineering
• MA Indo-Tibetan Buddhism, Tibetan Language (partial)
• 80/20 Endurance Certified Coach

Approaches and practices I use:

• Buddhist Geeks Guide and Approach
  • Six Ways of Meditating
  • Phases of Insight
  • Waves of Wakefulness
  • Social Mediation
• The Realization Process
  • 50+ exercises from all three primary areas of practice: Meditation, Embodiment, Healing Ground, and Trauma Repair
• Awareness Training, Dzogchen
  • Teachings and Practices I co-developed in our Buddhist Geeks Awareness Training
  • Teachings from Dzogchen and inspired practices and guidance
• Counseling/Psychology (Master’s Degree)
• Integral Dharma
  • This is the larger framework within I work, inspired by Ken Wilber’s Integral Theory
  • Practices and teachings from my online course at Integral Life, and from our Integral Dharma Training at Buddhist Geeks