Live workshop · Taunton · October 2026

Healing From the Past and Returning to Our Innate Wholeness

Awakening to a natural state of love, peace, and understanding

A single mature tree in an open meadow in the West Country

What if healing from the past did not depend on managing old stories or fixing difficult thoughts and feelings? Join Dr Bill Pettit and Dr Rani Bora for two immersive days at The Castle Hotel in Taunton — an invitation into a deeper, spiritually aligned understanding of mind and life.

  • Friday 23 – Saturday 24 October 2026 · two full days
  • The Castle Hotel, Castle Green, Taunton
  • In person · open to all · no prior knowledge required

Early bird £275 until end of August 2026 · Secure checkout via Stripe

Why we gather

Understanding that lands differently in a room

At The Holistic Psychiatry Clinic, our work has always been about more than managing symptoms. We believe in the innate resilience and wholeness that lies beneath the noise of difficult thinking — and we have seen, again and again, that this understanding can transform people's lives.

Our workshops are designed to create the conditions for that kind of insight. They are not lectures. There is no fixed curriculum. Through dialogue, reflection, and real-life stories, participants begin to see something new — and that seeing itself is the change.

We keep our events small and unhurried by design. The same principles that guide our clinical work — genuine listening, whole-person care, and a belief that people are not broken — guide everything we create in person.

“The best insights don't come from being told something new. They come from suddenly seeing something you always knew, but had forgotten.”

  • Small

    Every event is kept deliberately small — because the quality of presence matters more than the size of the room.

  • Unhurried

    We do not pack our events with content. We create space for insight to arrive — which it does, in its own time, when conditions are right.

  • Whole-person

    Every workshop reflects the same philosophy as our clinical work — that human beings are not broken, and that healing is a return to something already present.

  • In person

    We believe certain things can only happen in a room together. Presence, silence, shared laughter — these are not incidental. They are the point.

A small group gathered in conversation

Why we meet in person

What a room makes possible

  1. Presence changes the field

    When people gather with genuine intention, something shifts in the room that cannot be replicated on a screen. Attention deepens. Insights arrive unexpectedly. Understanding becomes shared rather than individual.

  2. Dialogue that goes deeper

    Real conversation — with pauses, with eye contact, with the ability to sense where someone is before they speak — produces a quality of understanding that typed words cannot reach.

  3. The value of commitment

    Choosing to travel, to take time, to be in a room — that act of commitment creates a container for change. The intention you bring to an in-person event is different in kind from clicking a Zoom link.

Next gathering

Join us in Taunton this October

Two immersive days with Dr Bill Pettit and Dr Rani Bora at The Castle Hotel — open to all, with no prior knowledge required.

Friday 23 – Saturday 24 October 2026 · Early bird £275 until end of August

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