The Story

For all recorded history, and certainly longer, human beings in every part of the world have told themselves and acted out the same story: that life is a competition for scarce resources and a struggle against others for survival and conquest.
Quite suddenly, beginning in the last decades of the 20th century, the story escalated to the global stage as the competition and struggle in many places on the planet became a threat to the entire biosphere on which all life depends
Despite heroic attempts to create planetary mechanisms that can mediate the worst impacts of human aggression and greed, the evidence of impending breakdown has intensified in the early decades of the 21st century.
Into this fearful scene a new story has suddenly emerged.
This is the story of the Visioneers: that human beings are greater than this; that they are the inheritors of a strong and gifted nobility of purpose and spirit, which will enable them to see themselves as a single human family on their planetary home; that through countless creative acts of compassion and service by ordinary people from every background and every age the world will be embraced by an ethos of peaceful cooperation, replacing the historical conflict that has brought our hard-won civilization to the brink of collapse.

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The People

The founders of The Visioneers International Network are Dr. Desmond Berghofer (Des) and Dr. Geraldine Schwartz (Gerri). They are an energetic and creative team who have worked as partners for three decades, combining their talents to found and operate a number of business and educational organizations focused on leadership development, and especially on ethical leadership and the creative management of change.

In The Visioneers International Network, they are joined by a team of exceptional people spanning a spectrum of ages and life stories, working together to capture the energy of the original Visioneers story to become the architects of our own positive social change movements through a global Web of Good Work.

Jamie Magrill

Jamie Magrill completed his BSc from the University of British Columbia in 2018, with a focus on Cancer and Diabetes Research. He is most interested in creating strong community-based tools and platforms to build connectivity and improve outcomes for folks in the social, philanthropic, and environmental good-work and start-up communities. With five years of biomedical research experience, and six years of volunteer leadership in student services, healthcare, adaptive aquatics and STEM teaching and outreach across BC, Jamie comes to the table with a wide variety of experiences and skills that enable him to empower and guide people and projects to achieve their best results; helping the people who help make the world a better place.

With connections at organizations and institutions ranging from the University of British Columbia, Let's Talk Science Canada and Genome BC, to local changemaker organizations such as Stanstronge Pool and the Dr. Peter Centre for HIV/AIDS Palliative Care, to international institutions including Nobel Laureates For Education, Jamie is able to draw on a diverse network of changemakers to enact change at the local level, starting with the Vancouver Chapter of the Visioneers International Network!

Jim Haliburton

Paul Adamson

Paul Adamson

Lori-Ann Speed

Maureen Edwardson

Bill Borgen

Olga Nardy