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The Hummingbird Collective

Sarah Noble & Caux Initiatives of Change Foundation

Society & Culture

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Frequency: 1 episode/9d. Total Eps: 6

THE HUMMINGBIRD COLLECTIVE: Lifting the illusion of insignificance, one drop at a time. 💧 The world feels heavy, but you are not powerless. Inspired by the legend of the tiny hummingbird who refused to stand still while the forest burned, this podcast is an invitation to discover the "hummingbird" in all of us. Hosted by Sarah Noble, storyteller and Head of Global Engagement at the Caux Foundation, we explore how individual actions—no matter how small—create collective change. SEASON ONE: STORIES IN MOTION In our inaugural season, we explore the art of listening and speaking across our differences. Moving beyond the headlines to find the human heart underneath, we share narratives of crossing borders and building community to remind ourselves that we are more similar than we are different. WHAT TO EXPECT: 💧 HUMAN STORIES: Real stories of people finding power and purpose in unexpected places. 💧 INTERCULTURAL DIALOGUE: Authentic conversations that bridge divides and reduce polarization. 💧 BE THE CHANGE: Every episode ends with a tangible practice—a simple step you can take immediately to create ripples of kindness in your own life. Whether you are 8 or 80, a lifelong activist, or just starting out, you belong here. Subscribe and let’s be the change—together. This podcast series is co-produced by the Caux Initiatives of Change Foundation, supported through the participation of Sarah Noble in the Youth for Peace: UNESCO Intercultural Leadership Programme (2025-2026). Guests speak from their own experience and perspective, which may not reflect the views of the show or its partners. Hosted on Ausha. See ausha.co/privacy-policy for more information.

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Listen to the Why: What Conflict Mediation Teaches Us About Every Hard Conversation

Season 1 · Episode 5

Thursday, April 16, 2026 • Duration 26:04

A story about stepping into rooms full of hatred, asking for weapons to be left at the door, and what 25 years of peacemaking reveals about the conversations we have every day.

Violent conflict is at its highest point in decades. Antje has spent more than two decades facilitating dialogue between adversaries in Tunisia, the DRC, Ukraine, Yemen, the Caucasus, Indonesia, and beyond — working alongside the EU and the UN. Her research focuses on the blind spots in conflict work: what gets overlooked precisely when the stakes are highest.

At its heart, mediation is an act of intercultural dialogue — the art of speaking and listening across the deepest human differences. True intercultural dialogue doesn't begin with technique; it begins with the willingness to be changed by what you hear. Antje has spent her career in that space, and what she's learned there applies far beyond the negotiation room.

She shares what it took to ask armed men in Nigeria to leave their weapons at the door. She talks about the early mistake of trying to take emotion out of a room — and what she learned when nobody called her back. And she maps three blind spots in peace work: the illusion of neutrality, the obsession with process over relationship, and the pressure to reach a solution before the dialogue has done its work.

Her two drops for the rest of us: peace doesn't start in a negotiation room — it starts in how we show up. And the next time someone says something that stings, ask not what they said, but why.

🔗 LINKS & RESOURCES Antje's podcast:

Masterpeace

👤 ABOUT THE GUEST Antje Herrberg has spent over 25 years at the intersection of conflict mediation and political transition, facilitating dialogue between adversaries in some of the world's most complex conflicts. She has worked within and alongside the European Union and the United Nations, and her research focuses on the blind spots in conflict work — what gets overlooked in moments of tension and decision. She shares these insights through writing and her podcast, Masterpiece.

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The Hummingbird Collective is co-produced by the Caux Initiatives of Change Foundation, supported through Sarah Noble's participation in the Youth for Peace: UNESCO Intercultural Leadership Programme (2025–2026). Guests speak from their own experience and perspective, which may not reflect the views of the show or its partners.

Hosted on Ausha. See ausha.co/privacy-policy for more information.

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What Happens to Them Happens to All of Us: Why Afghan Women and Girls Are Fighting for All of Our Rights

Season 1 · Episode 4

Wednesday, April 8, 2026 • Duration 23:14

What does it take to keep fighting when everything has been taken from you?

Over the past two decades, Afghanistan slowly built something new. Girls went to school. Women went to work. Women were elected to parliament. And then in 2021, it was erased. No school for girls. No work. No voice. Within hours of the Taliban's return, Afghan women broke open the locks of their schools anyway. They are still fighting today — inside Afghanistan and across Afghan communities in exile — and their fight sits at the frontline of the global struggle for women's and girls' rights.

This episode asks what that fight looks like from Geneva, from exile, from a late-night tram ride home from the library — when you realise you are safe, your daughters are safe, and more than 20 million women are not. It asks what intercultural solidarity actually requires. And it asks what it feels like — in your body — when your rights are taken away, and when they are given back.

Our guest is Bahishta Nothani. She grew up in Afghanistan under the Taliban, went to school in secret, and eventually made her way to Geneva where she became a dentist and co-founded the Afghanistan Women's Rights Association (AWRA). She speaks not from a distance but from lived experience — of what it means to have your rights stripped away, and to refuse to stop fighting regardless.

BE THE CHANGE

Talk about the situation of women and girls in Afghanistan — in your meetings, your gatherings, your everyday conversations. Wherever you are, whoever you are with. Bahishta's ask is simple: do not let the world look away. The energy of human beings, she says, is something no force can match. Keep the conversation going.

🔗 LINKS & RESOURCES

Afghanistan Women's Rights Association (AWRA):

The Stories We Tell Determine the World We Build: Peace, Hope, and Imagination

Season 1 · Episode 3

Wednesday, April 1, 2026 • Duration 13:04

A solo episode about one the most powerful tool any of us has — and why how we tell our stories determines whether people freeze or fly.

Stories aren't just entertainment. They're the original metaverse, ancient survival technology, and the difference between fear that contracts and hope that expands. When you hear a fact, two areas of your brain light up. When you hear a story, your whole brain activates through a process called neural coupling — you don't just listen to the hummingbird, you become the hummingbird.

This solo episode unpacks why storytelling matters for peace, what science says about emotional contagion, and how the way we frame a narrative can either shut people down or open them up. It's about asset framing vs. deficit framing, the danger of a single story, and what it means to tell stories for good — with care, consent, and dignity intact.

Sarah reflects on her work with the Peace Talks and the Caux Initiatives of Change Foundation, where people share real stories of trust, reconciliation, and ethical leadership across divides. Not institutions. Not policies. People. Because when someone stands up and tells a true story of rebuilding what was broken, something shifts: if they can do it, so can I.

This is not about naive optimism. It's about deliberate hope — the ability to imagine a different reality and believe it's possible. Fear freezes us. Hope is a survival instinct. And in a world drowning in doom, we get to choose what we amplify.

The bigger animals will always say the fire is too big and your wings are too small. Tell the story anyway.

🔗 LINKS & RESOURCES

Caux Initiatives of Change Foundation: https://www.caux.iofc.org

Just Start: Youth, Displacement and the Art of Global Citizenship

Season 1 · Episode 2

Wednesday, March 25, 2026 • Duration 26:32

A story about a young Syrian refugee who stopped waiting, started building, and now carries peace education to hundreds of young people. Displacement is not the end of this story. A question that belongs to all of us: what happens when we stop waiting for someone else to fix things — and start building them ourselves?

Over 100 million people have been displaced worldwide. Most are told to wait — for papers, for permission, for someone to open a door. This episode sits with what happens when someone refuses.

Mohammad Shahadat has started over more than once, in more than one country. Born in Syria, raised in Abu Dhabi, he returned to his homeland one year before the 2011 uprising began. Two decades of displacement followed. Eight scholarship rejections. Limited choices at every turn. And yet, a refusal to stop moving forward. When UNESCO offered him a scholarship, it opened a question: what if young refugees and the communities hosting them could actually understand each other?

In 2019, he founded the Youth for Peace Initiative in Amman to find out. They thought it might take years to reach 100 participants. They now have over 300. The name hasn't changed — because the beginning, he says, should always remind you of what's possible when you just start. A place on the Kofi Annan Changemakers Programme brought him to Geneva — and changed everything. He almost didn't board the plane. He got on anyway.

This conversation is about peace education and what it actually means — not the absence of war, but the presence of understanding. About global citizenship built through lived experience. And resilience not as inspiration, but as a daily practice of thinking about others, building bridges of trust across every difference that the world tries to make permanent.

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Youth for Peace Initiative:

The Stories in Every Stitch: Social Enterprise, Allyship and Dignity

Season 1 · Episode 1

Tuesday, March 17, 2026 • Duration 30:41

A story about skills no displacement can erase, dignity as a social entreprise, and 1,000 Palestinian artists whose names now travel the world — signed on every piece they make.

Over 100 million people have been displaced worldwide. Most wait years for a solution. During that time, the world tends to tell one story about who they are: refugees or displaced people. This episode sits with what that story leaves out. The Palestinian women at the centre of this episode carried with them a craft tradition passed down through generations — embroidery so refined it has since been recognised by UNESCO. Alongside the hardship of displacement and living as refugees, that knowledge remained. And when someone asked what they actually needed, their answer was direct: "We don't want charity. We want work. Nothing else. Dignity and work." A social enterprise was built in response to that. Not an NGO nor an aid programme. A business where the artists are partners, where every piece carries their signature, and where 1,000 names now travel to the Hamptons, to Geneva, to Hong Kong. In 13 years, they have never missed a single deadline.

When Roberta Ventura arrived at the Jerash refugee camp in 2013, she responded to what she heard — not with a programme, but with a partnership. This conversation reflects on what that has looked like over 13 years: the learning, the complexity, and what genuine allyship asks of those who want to help. It is also about the quiet power of responsible consumption — the choices each of us makes every time we spend money, and what those choices say about the world we want to build and the importance of social entreprise.

🔗 LINKS & RESOURCES

SEP: https://septhebrand.com/

Follow SEP: Instagram | Facebook | LinkedIn

The Drop: The Hummingbird Collective — Storytelling, One Story at a Time

Season 1

Monday, March 2, 2026 • Duration 02:20

The Drop: The Hummingbird Collective

Lifting the illusion of insignificance, one drop at a time.

The world feels heavy right now. Storytelling is how we make sense of it — and how we find each other inside it. Between global conflicts, the climate crisis, and the headlines of people losing their homes, it's easy to feel paralyzed—as if we are standing at the edge of a forest fire, wondering if anything we do actually matters. This podcast exists because storytelling changes that. Not by making the world lighter, but by showing us we are not carrying it alone.

The Hummingbird Collective is for those who refuse to look away. Inspired by the legend of the tiny hummingbird who carried single drops of water to a wildfire while others stood still, we explore how individual actions create collective change.

Hosted by Sarah Noble, a storyteller and Head of Global Engagement, Creative Peacebuilding & Inner Development at the Caux Foundation, this series is a call to action for the "hummingbird" in all of us.

Season One: Stories in Motion In this inaugural season, we explore the art of listening and speaking across our differences. Through narratives of crossing borders and building community, we move beyond the headlines to find the human heart underneath.

Our Method: Through intercultural dialogue, we bridge divides and remind ourselves that we are more similar than we are different. Every episode ends with a "Be the Change" practice—a tangible step you can take immediately to create ripples of kindness in your own community.

Who We Are: This podcast series is co-produced by the Caux Initiatives of Change Foundation, supported through the participation of Sarah Noble in the Youth for Peace: UNESCO Intercultural Leadership Programme (2025-2026). Guests speak from their own experience and perspective, which may not reflect the views of the show or its partners.

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