Dick received his B.A. in Social Welfare from the University of California at Berkeley in 1965. His Masters Degree in Social Work in 1967 is from the Columbia University School of Social Work in New York City, where his major course of study was Group Work.

Dick’s work with groups in the South Bronx was the one student example of group work presented to all the professional group work community of New York City in 1967. It was then published in the book The Practice of Group Work edited by William Schwartz, the originator of the extremely effective small group work model Dick teaches.

Dick has used the group work skills he learned to break ground in many areas, including stopping homosexual rape completely for four years at the military prison at Leavenworth. As a Captain in the Army, he also used group work (therapy) to help the angriest prisoners leave solitary confinement and get on with their lives.

Dick Wulf came to Colorado Springs in 1969 as a group therapist at the Pikes Peak Mental Health Center. He ran ten therapy groups a week and did his share of new client intakes. Dick more than tripled the size of PPMH when, in 1972, his two grants were funded for two different programs bringing 60 new mental health professionals and support staff on board. Eventually, Dick became the Program Director of the Pikes Peak Mental Health Center. Dick utilized his small group leadership skills in program design, supervision, and project management to help with the building of PPMH from one office to twenty-six.

Dick has served on many community councils, boards and governmental committees, often as the chairperson. He is and has been the president of the Pleasant Valley Neighborhood Association for 8 years, both in the 1970's and at present.

Dick has consulted where team dysfunction threatened the survival of a company, huge lawsuits or the witness of missionary teams operating secretly behind the Iron Curtain. Dick has consulted to many secular and religious organizations.

NavPress published Dick’s book Find Yourself - Give Yourselfin 1983. It went through three printings and was one of the top five finalists for the Gold Medalion Award.

Dick was an active elder in his churches for over 20 years. He was guest lecturer and on the Board of Directors of Covenant Seminary in St. Louis for a few years. He has trained churches in many places across America in small group leadership and Christian community.

Dick is also the designer of the game DragonRaid, which was a Christian counterpart to the game Dungeons and Dragons.