

Catherine Bloodworth
Catherine Bloodworth
Reflective Mentor & Learning Facilitator
Reflective Mentor & Learning Facilitator
Creating structured space for individuals and organisations to think, learn and move forward with clarity.
I work with individuals and teams navigating change, growth and complexity.
My focus is on engagement, organisational learning and reflective practice.
Through facilitation, mentoring and evaluation, I help organisations step back from delivery pressures and think clearly about what matters most.
Together, we make sense of emerging insight, explore ideas and challenges and shape confident next steps.About Me
For over twenty years, I’ve worked alongside individuals and organisations to make sense of reflections, challenges, and ideas to support learning, change, and growth.My background is in community engagement and evaluation, and as a founding partner of Bright Culture Consultancy, I’ve supported a diverse range of cultural, heritage, and environmental organisations in reflecting on and learning from complex projects. Over time, I became increasingly interested in what underpins strategy and delivery: how people think, how they interpret experiences, and how learning influences what happens next.
I am an accredited Coach and Action Learning Facilitator, and these foundations shape my approach. I am passionate about creating thoughtful, well-supported spaces where individuals and teams can pause, honestly reflect, and explore their thoughts without pressure.
What motivates me most is seeing clarity emerge when assumptions shift,confidence builds, and people start to see new possibilities in their work. Whether I’m mentoring, facilitating a peer group or Action Learning Set, acting as a critical friend, or supporting engagement and evaluation processes, my role is not to provide ready-made answers, but to help insight surface and for next steps to feel grounded and achievable.
At heart, I am interested in what becomes possible whenpeople are given space to notice more deeply and imagine what could grow next.
Coaching

Coaching is a non-therapeutic relationship, where the coach facilitates and supports the person being coached in a structured, motivating and non-judgemental way. My coaching approach is collaborative and non-directive, we will work together in a forward-thinking, solution-focused way at a pace that is respectful and in tune with your needs.

‘Working with Catherine has been an incredibly helpful and supportive experience. Catherine has really helped me to clarify and give shape to my thoughts, while encouraging me to develop practical steps to move forward with, in both my personal and professional life.’
JL Healy, Arts Marketing Professional
Action Learning

Action Learning is a powerful group problem-solving approach based on the idea that people have an unlimited capacity to learn from experience but a limited capacity to learn from being taught. Action learning promotes fresh thinking and new ways of looking at and dealing with situations and is, as the name suggests, action-orientated.

'I find Catherine extremely attentive in her listening, and the astuteness of her clarifications really resonates this. Her body language and tone reflect a real presence and care with the process, and I greatly appreciate this, and have a strong sense of how she is supporting and holding the group within her attention. This is demonstrated through her gentle pointers to keep us on track both timing-wise and with the stages, we are in. I value how she is listening to the communication of people's body language also and reflects this back.'
AL Set member
Mentoring

Mentoring is about helping people to develop more effectively. It is a relationship designed to build confidence and support the mentee so they are able to take control of their own development and work. Mentoring differs from coaching in that the person acting as a mentor will have expertise and experience that is relevant to the mentee’s professional needs and goals.

'Catherine has been invaluable in my progress professionally and personally and I've come on so far in the short amount of time we've been working together. It has never felt like a mentoring or a coaching session, it always feels like a conversation, a catch up with a friend. She asks all the right questions in a way that never creates pressure or puts you on the spot'
Rendered Retina Theatre Company
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