Management Team
Joseph R. Giove, Executive Director, Founder
Executive Director, InfinityAffinity.org, Global Coherence Project. Joseph Giove is a technologist, biomedical engineer and clinical hypnotist whose passion is the practical application of consciousness research at both individual and collective levels. He has created and orchestrated hundreds of global meditations through InfinityAffinity.org, which he founded in 1998.
Mr. Giove's professional experience spans many technology areas, from software development to aerospace and biomedicine. Mr. Giove has been CEO of Distributed Computing, Inc, a pioneer in web-performance testing using the distributed computing model; and founder and CEO of Biophor Corporation, a biomedical research and laser device manufacturing firm. Other tenures included manufacturing engineering for a two-terawatt laser fusion project for the British Government via a technology transfer program from Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, and engineering for Kaiser Electronics' line of aircraft head-up displays.
Mr. Giove is a public speaker, corporate trainer and mind-body wellness expert (www.IntendBalance.com). His favorite topics: Embracing Change: Being Nimble in Hyper-Time; Winning with Your Team; The High-Performance Mind; and Thriving under Stress.
Elizabeth Tobin, JD, Member - Common Passion Board of Directors
Elizabeth Tobin is a visionary who is concerned with the practical application of consciousness-based technologies to improve people’s day-to-day lives. Ms. Tobin’s work spans the individual, local and collective levels.
She is a cum laude graduate of Suffolk University Law School. Ms. Tobin left the practice of law to serve at a battered women’s shelter specifically dedicated to safeguarding underserved populations, including women with physical and mental disabilities, HIV/AIDS, and immigrants and refugees. She later became the executive director of a transitional housing program for women in recovery from substance abuse, and then the executive director of a community organizing coalition. In addition, she has performed internationally as a musician and is an accomplished songwriter.
Ms. Tobin studied Resonance Repatterning® with its founder, Chloe Wordsworth, and was the first Certified Resonance Repatterning® Practitioner in Massachusetts. In keeping with her calling to develop and apply new systems for creating positive social change, Elizabeth founded www.LizTobin.com, a global community dedicated to creating individual and collective coherence.
Ms. Tobin is experienced in creating collaborative relationships using broad-based approaches. She has served on the Advisory Board of the Healthy Communities Massachusetts Institute, the Board of Directors of Self Esteem Boston Educational Institute, Inc., and is a past Chair and Board Member of the Healthy Roslindale Coalition, part of the International Healthy Communities Initiative. Through her work at the state and local levels, she is familiar with current strategies for promoting public safety including Community Policing, Neighborhood Crime Watches, Youth Development, Service Learning models, Domestic Violence Prevention and Intervention, and implementing Environmental Strategies for the prevention of substance abuse.
Ms. Tobin has served as the Chair of the Certification Committee of the Repatterning Practitioner’s Association and currently writes a column for the quarterly RPA Journal. Elizabeth has appeared on radio and TV, and gives private-individual, group and proxy sessions. For more information about her work please visit www.LizTobin.com.
James Welsh, Chief Technology Officer
As CTO, James and our development team are helping Common Passion to turn studies into solutions. Currently, we are creating our Coherence Feedback Monitor, which will allow us to watch and learn as organic technology and web technology converge to educate and empower humanity in creating a coherent presence.
When asked how it was possible for web technology and social harmony to collaborate, James replied, "In my work and meditations I have witnessed a rising base potential of human consciousness. I am also seeing amazing new developments in the way humans share consciousness through the web. Web technology helps bridge the gaps in human awareness and strengthen our conscious coherence.”
James began his technical career in the Marine Corps, where his enthusiasm and dedication led him from there to a position with the US DoD Space Program. During his tenure at the US DoD Space Program, James developed six different applications for the MCOM project, including real-time network response systems as well as performing mission critical training for new systems. As a former Marine with a ‘Secret Clearance,’ James was then hired by Lockheed Martin where he furthered his skills in project management, training, and technology, while beginning his study of eastern philosophy, meditation, and yoga. Though he did not realize it at the time, James’ ability to step back and ‘see the big picture’ in environments mired in minute technical details, was preparing him for a future in consciousness and coherence technology development.
James has dedicated his life to evolving his technical capabilities in unity with mind-body education. His experience in the areas of public speaking, intercultural communications, eastern philosophy, massage therapy, yoga and meditation practices enhance his community contribution as a global community activist, wellness practitioner, and founder of Whole Being Health (WBH).
The WBH project implements Self-Assessment technology where individuals can track their progress within the dimensions of wellness (physical, emotional, spiritual, social, creative, experiential and environmental) and empower themselves to lead fuller, healthier lives. James' technology company, Conscious Web Solutions, creates, maintains, and advises projects that focus on raising human consciousness through online communications and technology.
Barry Goldstein, Creativity Director
Grammy Award Winning Producer and Sound Healer Barry Goldstein is a translator of Sacred Sound and inspirational Song. His passion is sharing music, or has he calls it “ The Universal Language of Love” with the world. His music is being used globally as well as individually in Hospitals, Hospices, Wellness centers and individual practices and creates the space for healing to occur.
Barry’s musical experience spans many styles and genres from winning a Grammy with Les Paul for Best Rock Instrumental in 2005, to providing ambient music for Shirley Maclaine’s latest DVD on UFO’s. He has opened up and shared space with New York Times Best Selling Authors Wayne Dyer and James Van Praagh as well as touching the audiences of Marianne Williamson, Neale Donald Walsh and has created music for Dannion Brinkley. Barry has also composed for NBC, ABC, Fox and Lifetime Networks as well as being an award-winning composer for film. He has produced music for EMI, Polygram, Atlantic, BMG and many other Major Record Labels.
Birgitte Rasine, Communications & Multimedia
Birgitte Rasine is a writer, producer, journalist and a tireless thinker and innovator. She is also the founder and CEO of LUCITÀ, a high end visual media and consultancy company recognized in the US and Europe as an innovative media organization dedicated to responsibility and ethics in its industry.
A passionate speaker on socially conscious media and related topics, she has most recently given a keynote at Oregon State University's Third Annual Social Change conference, and spoken on two panels on social responsibility in the media at the DEMOS Forum and the Stern School of Business in New York City. In 2004, she was a keynote speaker at Women's International Networking 2004 in Geneva, Switzerland. She has been interviewed by NPR, Ethical Corporation magazine, and the Australian national radio. She is also the author of The Colors of Perception, LUCITÀ's report on social responsibility in the media and communications industries in the US.
In her previous career, Ms. Rasine wrote for two of the media industry's top publications, The Hollywood Reporter and Daily Variety. Her articles have also appeared in Business Week and Dialogo Mediterraneo, a tri-lingual journal on policy, economy and the environment in the Mediterranean region. In 1997, three of her plays for children were staged in the San Francisco Bay Area. Prior to that, Ms. Rasine was a visual effects coordinator, camera assistant, and electrician on Hollywood and independent feature films. She worked for companies such as PDI/Dreamworks, ILM/Universal Studios, HBO, and Disney, and credits them for giving her time in the trenches.
An award-winning poet, Ms. Rasine speaks 5 languages and has lived in 6 countries. She holds a BA in Aesthetics of Film from Stanford University.