Us - Hornby & Birtwistle

About us

Our coaches are specialists. " Having had horses since we were five years old has been a gift and a joy.........occasionally a trial!! " We have spent decades working with diverse groups and individuals, in all sectors, both here in the UK and in Europe. Mastery has been attained in coaching, NLP and equine psychology. We deliver person centered coaching. Our leading edge facilitation and coaching are used to deliver team development and communication, corporate leadership, learning and growth through transformative interactions with horses, developing personal potential and skills which transfer forward into the corporate world, education and life.

Catherine Birtwistle

Coach

Catherine is passionate about the benefits of working and playing with horses, since her first pony arrived at Christmas over 40 years ago. She delivers bespoke coaching programmes and is an accredited coach and Eagala trainer, lecturer, NLP Master Practitioner, Enterprise coach, and uses Clean Space and Clean Language and Integral Eye Movement.
Catherine worked for 15 years in the Third Sector "reaching the hard to reach" and building communities, neighbourhood management and community cohesion. She worked for many years in the public sector in partnership working and excelled in the private sector in management, where she was an award winning sales person.
Catherine is motivated to effect beneficial changes for all, by applying her non-judgmental and innovative skills.

Catherine Howley

Coach

Catherine has 20 years experience of working in the education, community, voluntary and faith sectors, accompanied by over 20 years in the private sector in HR and management. She is an experienced facilitator, coach, tutor, mentor and trainer using differentiated pedagogies as appropriate to her clients.
Her 60 years of owning horses has enabled her to join this passion to her academic and experiential skills for the benefit of her clients who have been drawn from the private, public and third sector.
Catherine is an NLP Master Practitioner and a practitioner in Sirolli Enterprise Facilitation, together with Clean Space and Clean Language, Provocative Therapy, accredited life coach, Integral Eye Movement, Webster Stratton parenting and relationship coaching.

H & B courses combine interactions with horses (on the ground - not riding the horse) and non-directive coaching in powerful learning experiences, through which participants explore and expand their emotional intelligence, leadership, communication and influencing capabilities.

The person with the greatest flexibility of thought and behaviour will have the greatest influence in any interaction.

The experiential approach enables participants to observe and learn from the impact of their behaviour. The H&B team of human and horse are the mirror to behaviours and aid the development of rapid personal development.

"Magic moments" happen during our sessions as a result of creating new neurological connections. Participants undertake new learning, raised awareness of their own patterns of thought, feelings and behaviour, with a focus on clarity of thought and enhanced decision making to the benefit of personal and professional scalable strategies.

Leaders require a dynamic combination of self-awareness, diverse intelligences and highly developed interpersonal skills. Our experiential approach provides for the participant to witness the impact of their thoughts and behaviours as mirrored by the horse. This in turn provides for rapid personal development as facilitated by our coaches. EFC is a 360 degree experience.

Interacting with horses at liberty (not on lead ropes) demands the same personal qualities that make for effective communication and relationships in work and life - awareness, clarity, focus, intention, energy, empathy and influence.
We are different. We help you make beneficial changes in your professional and personal lives. We assist you to identify your hidden potential, your negative and positive thought patterns, the road blocks you self impose and new thought process.

Young people and their leaders from France, Germany and Turkey begin a learning process in a classroom in Sarreguemines Germany.............

.......continue and complete with equine facilitated coaching in the H&B grassy outdoor classroom in Burnley!

H&B have been creating, developing and delivering leadership development, communication and team building, group and individual coaching packages for all sectors, for decades, in response to client demand, with results which are often described as pivotal to massive change.