{"id":268,"date":"2024-03-01T16:25:24","date_gmt":"2024-03-01T16:25:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nsp.tikkun.org\/?page_id=268"},"modified":"2024-04-10T18:52:57","modified_gmt":"2024-04-10T18:52:57","slug":"our-team","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/spiritualprogressives.org\/index.php\/who-we-are\/our-team\/","title":{"rendered":"Our Team"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-9d6595d7 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:33.33%\"><div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignleft size-medium is-resized\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\" src=\"https:\/\/nsp.tikkun.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/Cat-Headshot-200x300.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-66\" style=\"object-fit:cover;width:300px;height:400px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/spiritualprogressives.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/Cat-Headshot-200x300.png 200w, https:\/\/spiritualprogressives.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/Cat-Headshot.png 405w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 200px) 85vw, 200px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:66.66%\">\n<p><strong>Cat J. Zavis<\/strong>&nbsp;is the <strong>Executive Director<\/strong> of the Network of Spiritual Progressives, a collaborative divorce attorney, mediator, and Coach for Parents co-parenting their children after divorce. She is also a sought after trainer in empathic communication, having trained hundreds of collaborative attorneys, coaches, financial professionals, therapists, mediators, spiritual practitioners, and parents. In 2009, she was awarded a Peace Builder Award for her business. She also has a MA degree in Women and Gender Studies. Cat has been a long time activist in social change work. She has worked as a volunteer with the American Civil Liberties Union, and with prisoners\u2019 rights organizations, domestic violence victims, the Lawyers\u2019 Committee for Human Rights, and many others. She worked as a public defender and then as a women\u2019s rights lawyer. Cat grounds her life and work in the wisdom and spiritual traditions and brings those values to her work every day. You can reach Cat at:&nbsp;<a href=\"mailto:Cat@spiritualprogressives.org\">Cat@spiritualprogressives.org<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-9d6595d7 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:33.33%\"><div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignleft size-medium is-resized\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"240\" height=\"300\" src=\"https:\/\/nsp.tikkun.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/Alden-Headshot-240x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-50\" style=\"object-fit:cover;width:300px;height:400px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/spiritualprogressives.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/Alden-Headshot-240x300.jpg 240w, https:\/\/spiritualprogressives.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/Alden-Headshot-819x1024.jpg 819w, https:\/\/spiritualprogressives.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/Alden-Headshot-768x960.jpg 768w, https:\/\/spiritualprogressives.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/Alden-Headshot.jpg 1067w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 240px) 85vw, 240px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:66.66%\">\n<p><strong>Alden F. Cohen<\/strong>&nbsp;is the <strong>operations manager<\/strong> at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tikkun.org\"><em>Tikkun<\/em> <\/a>and the NSP. He holds a BM in Music Performance from Peabody Institute of The Johns Hopkins University and a MM in Music Performance from the San Francisco Conservatory of Music.&nbsp; He&#8217;s the Santa Cruz Symphony&#8217;s Principal Double Bassist, Oakland Symphony&#8217;s Assistant Principal Double Bassist, and Berkeley and Modesto Symphony&#8217;s Section Double Bassist.&nbsp; Mr. Cohen also <a href=\"https:\/\/aldenfcohen.wordpress.com\/lessons\/\">teaches<\/a> Double Bass.  Recent publications: <em><a href=\"https:\/\/a.co\/d\/atJmRWf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Double Bass: Essential Practice Techniques<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cat J. Zavis&nbsp;is the Executive Director of the Network of Spiritual Progressives, a collaborative divorce attorney, mediator, and Coach for Parents co-parenting their children after divorce. She is also a sought after trainer in empathic communication, having trained hundreds of collaborative attorneys, coaches, financial professionals, therapists, mediators, spiritual practitioners, and parents. In 2009, she was &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/spiritualprogressives.org\/index.php\/who-we-are\/our-team\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Our Team&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":239,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-268","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritualprogressives.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/268","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritualprogressives.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritualprogressives.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritualprogressives.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritualprogressives.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=268"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spiritualprogressives.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/268\/revisions"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritualprogressives.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/239"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritualprogressives.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=268"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}