Today we travel to Amsterdam for part one of a conversation with someone who has spent her whole life working in the middle of the world's worst conflicts. Susan Collin Marks cut her peacemaking teeth in native South Africa and actively participated in that country's transition from apartheid to a fully inclusive democracy.

She then went onto be Vice President of Search for Common Ground, the largest peace building NGO in the world. Susan worked in that role for 30 years notably facilitating ongoing dialogue in the Middle East between Palestinians and Israelis, Iranians and Americans, Syrians and Americans, within Libya, and multilaterally throughout the region. She emerged as a mentor and coach for high level political and civil society leaders around the world.

In this segment Susan talks about the current opportunity for us to reset our society and to advocate for creating wholeness out of what’s been torn apart. She links the current shift to what she lived through in South Africa: "The old is dying in front of our eyes right now and the new is not yet born. There is a place in the middle of not knowing, where we have to just put one foot in front of the other, where we have to trust that we will find our way and we know that we will make mistakes. We also know that we will find our way through it."

I hope you will enjoy this rich, inspiration conversation with the wise and remarkable Susan Collin Marks