Healing From
the Past and
Returning to Our
Innate Wholeness
Awakening to a Natural State of Love and Understanding
What if healing from trauma or any setbacks didn't depend on managing the past or fixing our current difficult thoughts and feelings? Join Dr Bill Pettit and Dr Rani Bora for a two-day immersive live experience in Somerset.
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"Beyond the stories of the past and the noise of the brainDr Bill Pettit & Dr Rani Bora
lies something constant — a deeper intelligence,
a natural resilience, and an innate capacity for peace."
"The memories of experience do not have to be the source of lifelong pain."
A different kind of understanding
This is not a traditional teaching-based workshop. Through stories, dialogue, reflection, and real-life insights, you will begin to see that while some life events can be experienced as painful and negatively impactful in the moment, they do not define who we are at our core.
Drawing on decades of experience in psychiatry, neuroscience, coaching, and spiritual insight, Drs Pettit and Bora will explain why the powerful possibility of a return to the experience of wholeness is not an exception to the rule — it is the rule in action.
Beyond the noise of low or anxious thinking lies something constant: a deeper intelligence, a natural resilience, and an innate capacity for clarity, peace, and wellbeing.
Have you ever asked yourself…
What if healing from trauma didn't depend on managing the past or fixing my current thoughts and feelings?
What if distress can feel so real — and yet naturally shift — without years of effort?
What if my identity around pain doesn't have to be permanent — and can simply dissolve?
What if resilience and healing are not things I need to force?
If any of these questions resonate, this workshop was designed for you.
Participants often describe this kind of understanding as deeply freeing, quietly transformative, and unexpectedly simple.
What you'll experience
This is not a traditional teaching-based workshop. You will not be handed a workbook or told what to think. Through stories, dialogue, reflection, and real-life insights, you will begin to see something new.
How experience is created
Understand how human experience is created in the moment — and why this insight changes everything about how we relate to our memories.
Why distress naturally shifts
Why distress can feel so real — and how it naturally shifts when we stop fighting it. Not through technique, but through a deeper understanding of thought.
How identities dissolve
How identities form around pain — and how they can dissolve. Something deeper and more constant always remains.
Resilience as your natural state
Why resilience and healing are not something we need to force — they are the default state of a mind that has been allowed to settle.
What lies beyond the past
What lies beyond trauma and profound life challenges. A fresh, compassionate understanding that opens possibilities.
A new journey begins
By the end of these two days, you will have begun a new journey — one of incremental insights and realisations that unfold naturally in daily life.
Rooted in the Three Universal Principles
first articulated by Sydney Banks
The universal intelligence behind all life — the energy and wisdom that underlies all human experience. Not the personal mind, but the intelligence of life itself.
The gift of awareness — what allows us to be aware of our experience as it unfolds. The capacity to see, feel, and know from the inside out.
The creative power that shapes how we experience life from moment to moment. Understanding thought as the medium of experience changes everything.
Dr Pettit has shared this understanding across 13 countries for over 40 years. Dr Bora has woven it into her psychiatric and coaching practice for the last 15 years.
Decades of experience,
two psychiatrists,
one shared conviction
Dr William (Bill) Pettit
Dr Bill Pettit brings over six decades of experience in medicine and neuroscience, and more than fifty years in the fields of psychology and psychiatry. For over forty years, he has shared internationally — across 13 countries — a spiritual understanding of the universal principles of Mind, Consciousness, and Thought, originally articulated by philosopher and author Sydney Banks in 1973. He was personally mentored by Sydney Banks for 26 years.
His career spans service as a US Navy Flight Surgeon and Chief of Psychiatry at the US Naval Nuclear Submarine Base, more than 15 years teaching in academic institutions, and co-authoring six peer-reviewed papers on the Three Principles. He holds an adjunct faculty position at Creighton University School of Medicine.
Dr Rani Bora
Dr Rani Bora brings over two decades of experience in psychiatry and integrative mental health, and more than fifteen years in transformative coaching. A Fellow of the Royal College of Psychiatrists, she has been sharing a holistic, psycho-spiritual approach to mental well-being she calls Mental Wealth.
In 2023, feeling no longer aligned with the conventional mental health paradigm, she co-founded The Holistic Psychiatry Clinic — a CQC-regulated practice serving clients across the UK. Through her clinical practice, coaching programmes, and workshops, she supports individuals to reduce or come off psychiatric medication safely, move beyond diagnosis, and reconnect with their natural state of peace and resilience.
This workshop is open to everyone
Anyone who desires more hope that complete healing from past painful experiences is possible. No prior knowledge or background is required.
Whether you are a healthcare professional looking for a deeper framework, or someone on a personal journey of healing and growth, you will find something of value here.
Healthcare Professionals
Doctors, nurses, and allied health professionals seeking a deeper framework for understanding patient wellbeing.
Therapists & Coaches
Therapists, coaches, and helping practitioners looking to deepen their understanding of mind and human nature.
Individuals on a Healing Journey
Anyone navigating trauma, setbacks, or difficult life experiences who is ready to explore a new understanding of resilience.
Curious Minds
Anyone drawn to an integrative, spiritually-informed approach to mental wellbeing — no background required.
You will have begun a new journey of incremental insight
Fresh Understanding
A compassionate understanding of trauma, suffering, and our unlimited potential for deep insight and growth.
Meaning vs. Events
The difference between life events and the meaning we create around them — a distinction that changes everything.
Thought & Feeling
How thoughts shape feelings, physiology, and behaviour — and how understanding this creates natural relief.
Spiritual Nature
How understanding the connection between our formless spiritual nature and our psychological nature naturally transforms suffering.
Innate Wholeness
A direct sense that complete healing is possible — that wholeness is not a destination to reach, but a truth to remember.
Taunton Racecourse, Somerset
Two full days of immersive experience set in the heart of Somerset — a spacious, accessible venue surrounded by open countryside, offering the right conditions for the kind of quiet reflection this work invites.
Food, tea, coffee and refreshments are provided on both days.
Somerset, UK
Saturday 24 October 2026
2 full days
Super early bird only
Recommended pre-reading
For those who wish to maximise their experience — or even decide whether to attend — Dr Pettit encourages participants to read The Enlightened Gardener and The Enlightened Gardener Revisited by Sydney Banks ahead of the workshop.
Dr Bora also recommends Second Chance — especially for anyone experiencing mental health turmoil, wanting to find hope, and ready to embark on a journey of self-discovery and growth.
These books capture the essence of Sydney Banks' message of hope, shared for 36 years after his enlightenment experience in 1973.
Invest in a weekend that stays with you
Prices rise as we approach October. Reserve your place at the super early bird rate and save — and gain access to the exclusive bonus webinar.
This is a non-clinical educational event. It is not a substitute for psychiatric or medical care.
Hosted by The Holistic Psychiatry Clinic · Questions? hello@holisticpsychiatryclinic.com
You are not broken.
You never were.
Join us in Somerset this October and discover what has always been there — waiting quietly beneath the noise of difficult thoughts and past pain.
23–24 October 2026 · Taunton Racecourse, Somerset · From £250
Super early bird includes bonus online webinar on 21 October, 7–8 pm