Biography
Mark Oelze has a Master’s in Biblical Counseling. He has been a marriage and family counselor and communicator in Wichita for more than 30 years. Mark’s entire family is passionate about teaching. He has been married 37 years to his wife Zerrin, who is in her 18th year of teaching science in grade school. Their youngest daughter Taya, is in her 5th year of teaching kindergarten in Tulsa. And their oldest two children are University professors: Brittany at Oral Roberts University in Tulsa, and Micah at Florida International University in Miami.
Mark is the author of The PLEDGE of a Lifetime—Her Hope for Connection and His Guide Through Conflict. He is also the creator of PLEDGEtalk, a model for healthy communication and step-by-step guide to process conflict.
The family has also created several other resources for the PLEDGEtalk communication process: an online course at https://pledgetalk.com; a children’s book (editing stage), and a grade school curriculum (K-5) currently used as a pilot program in Taya’s grade school in Tulsa.
