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The Zen Teacher Experience

by Dan Tricarico

The Zen Teacher Experience, with your host Dan Tricarico, shows you how to create focus, simplicity, and tranquility both in the classroom and in your life. Listen to The Zen Teacher Experience to learn to maximize your performance without sacrificing yourself.

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Episodes

  1. Instant Zen: That's Not a Functional Thought

    Hey Zen Teachers, Just like educators, therapists often say things to their patients in passing and have very little idea of the impact they're making. In this episode of INSTANT ZEN, I talk about something MY therapist said to me recently that has helped me more than she will ever know (unless I...

  2. 5 Tips for Re-entering a Crazy School Year

    Hey Zen Teachers, If you're like me, you've been more than a little stressed and anxious about what this new school year is going to look like. So in this episode, I offer 5 approaches that can help you navigate stress during a crazy time and, with practice, can help you remain calm, peaceful…

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  3. (Blogcast): Same Stream. New Experience

    Hey Zen Teachers, Tired of this quarantine yet? I know it's an inconvenience, but hey, I'll stay inside, eat junk food, binge Netflix, read voraciously, and write poetry and blog posts and articles to my heart's content -- if it will keep people safe. :) More seriously, we are living through an...

  4. Mindfulness and Its Myths and Misconceptions with Reyna Texler

    Hey Zen Teachers, I'm so excited to present this very special episode with my first guest ever, Mindfulness expert Reyna Texler. Together, we discuss Mindfulness and dispel some of its myths and misconceptions. I hope you enjoy. Peace and love, Dan RESOURCES MENTIONED: Pure Edge I am Present ***...

  5. The Movement is Growing

    Hey Zen Teachers, This is just a quick dispatch from the front lines. . . When I started talking about stress reduction and teacher self-care, I felt like a lone voice in the wilderness. But now there are more of us, and we're spreading the message of how teachers should be taken care of and how...

  6. Instant Zen: (Blogcast): Everyone Has Five Minutes

    Formerly 2-Minute Zen, Instant Zen is a new short feature on The Zen Teacher Experience that hopes to provide you with thoughtful insights, brief strategies, and actionable tools that can help you reduce your stress and improve your self-care. If you have a few minutes (and this episode suggests...

  7. Beginner's Mind

    Hey Zen Teachers, In this episode, I talk about the Zen concept of "Beginner's Mind." Beginner's Mind gives you permission NOT to be the expert all the time, but instead is a practice where you can approach every situation--stressful or not--with the awe and wonder of a beginner, just as your...

  8. What is Zen?

    Hey Zen Teachers, In this episode, I define what I mean by the word "Zen," so that we have a common language moving forward. While the term may ORIGINATE in religion (think: Zen Buddhism), I see it--and use it--more as a secular life approach that helps me reduce stress because I am learning to...

  9. EPISODE 4: THE ZEN TEACHER EXPERIENCE: THE 5-STEP ZEN TEACHER BLUEPRINT

    Hey Zen Teachers, In this episode, I go over the 5-Step Zen Teacher Blueprint I developed so that teachers can figure out how to create and customize a personalized program that helps them reduce their stress and improve their self-care. THE 5-STEP ZEN TEACHER BLUEPRINT IS: 1. INVITE POSSIBLITIES...

  10. ASK THE ZEN TEACHER: Pre-school Year Anxiety

    Hey Zen Teachers, In addition to regular episodes of The Zen Teacher Experience, I want to do a few little features that you can think of as little interludes, or maybe even as little commercial breaks, in between the regular episodes. They may include, but are not limited to: 1. Ask The Zen...

  11. Episode 5: The Zen Teacher Experience: Just One Thing (Blogcast)

    Hey Zen Teachers, What if I told you I could help you create more space and time on your calendar for those things you want to do, those things that fulfill you, those things that you never quite seem to have enough time for? Seems pretty amazing, right? Well, the answer is inside. In today's...

  12. EPISODE 3: THE ZEN TEACHER EXPERIENCE: PERMISSION

    Because teachers are givers, they so often give to everyone else but don't take care of themselves. What they are probably waiting for is permission. And that's why I'm here. Self-care is NOT selfish. It is critical to being your best and doing your best so that you CAN take care of others--your...

  13. EPISODE 2: THE ZEN TEACHER EXPERIENCE: HOW I GOT HERE

    I was heading toward burn out and didn't know where to turn or what to do. But now I know how to continue enjoying teaching and how I'll make it to retirement. In this episode, I explain how I figured it out. Enjoy. Dan

  14. EPISODE 1: THE ZEN TEACHER EXPERIENCE STATEMENT OF PRINCIPLES

    Welcome to the inaugural episode of THE ZEN TEACHER EXPERIENCE podcast. This first time out of the gate, I will share with you how I want to help you maximize your performance with sacrificing yourself. But that's just the beginning. Not only will you hear me pay tribute to one of my favorite...

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ABOUT THIS SHOW

The Zen Teacher Experience, with your host Dan Tricarico, shows you how to create focus, simplicity, and tranquility both in the classroom and in your life. Listen to The Zen Teacher Experience to learn to maximize your performance without sacrificing yourself.

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The Zen Teacher Experience, with your host Dan Tricarico, shows you how to create focus, simplicity, and tranquility both in the classroom and in your life. Listen to The Zen Teacher Experience to learn to maximize your performance without sacrificing yourself.

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The Zen Teacher Experience has 14 episodes. Check the episode list to see recent publication dates and frequency.

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The Zen Teacher Experience is created and hosted by Dan Tricarico.
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