Finding Stillness
Awakening to Love, Wisdom, Creativity,
and Relationship Ease
4th + 5th September 2026
Sudbury, Suffolk UK
This is a wonderful and unmissable opportunity to join Dr. Bill Pettit for a heartfelt, up close and personal, 2-day exploration of The Enlightened Gardener and The Enlightened Gardener Revisited by Sydney Banks—and the spiritual wisdom within each of us that Mr. Banks points to so persistently and eloquently.
Throughout the weekend, Dr. Pettit will draw upon more than four decades of exploring the metaphor of the Three Universal Principles—Mind, Consciousness, and Thought—gifted to Sydney Banks. His 26 years of personal mentoring by Mr. Banks have led to deep insights into the meeting point of spiritual truth, medicine, neuroscience, psychology, and psychiatry. Dr. Pettit has a unique gift for bringing simplicity to apparent complexity, often through real-life stories filled with hope and humour.
This gathering is a gentle invitation to settle, to listen, and to rediscover the wisdom and well-being that are already yours.
This is a trip that Dr Pettit will not be undertaking again which makes it an even more precious opportunity.
Never Broken,
Nothing Lacking
One Cause, One Cure
12th + 13th September 2026
Ambleside, The Lake District
Most retreats try to add
This one gently removes what's in the way.
Over the course of the weekend, Dave, Jenn, and Dr. Pettit will guide conversations around how experience really works, how clarity, calm, and wellbeing aren't things you manufacture, but something you naturally return to when understanding deepens.
There is nothing you need to prepare, Nothing you need to "be good at". And no expectation that you share anything you don't want to.
Just come as you are.
Finding Stillness
by the sea
with Sarie Taylor & Dr Bill Pettit
19th + 20th September 2026
Criccieth, North Wales
We will explore how resting in the present moment brings effortless access to love, understanding, and the quiet guidance of wisdom—an inner source that transforms how we experience life, relationships, and well-being.
Together, we’ll reflect on selected quotes and stories from both books (shared through simple, engaging slides). These reflections will open the door to light-hearted conversation, shared insights, and real-life experiences of hope—each one pointing us back to the stillness and presence available when we live in the now rather than in our thoughts.
Throughout the weekend, Dr. Pettit will draw upon more than four decades of exploring the metaphor of the Three Universal Principles—Mind, Consciousness, and Thought—gifted to Sydney Banks. His 26 years of personal mentoring by Mr. Banks have led to deep insights into the meeting point of spiritual truth, medicine, neuroscience, psychology, and psychiatry. Dr. Pettit has a unique gift for bringing simplicity to apparent complexity, often through real-life stories filled with hope and humour.
This gathering is a gentle invitation to settle, to listen, and to rediscover the wisdom and well-being that are already yours.
This is a trip that Dr Pettit will not be undertaking again which makes it an even more precious opportunity.
Finding Stillness
Awakening to Love, Wisdom, Creativity and
Relationship Ease
26th + 27th September 2026
Copenhagen, Denmark
For a heartfelt 2-day exploration of the spiritual wisdom within each of us that Mr. Banks points to so persistently and eloquently.
Together, we’ll reflect on selected quotes and stories from The Enlightened Gardener and The Enlightened Gardener Revisited by Sydney Banks 2001, 2005. These reflections will open the door to a light-hearted conversation, shared insights, and real-life experiences of hope - each one pointing us back to the stillness and presence available when we live in the NOW rather than in our thoughts.
We will explore how resting in the present moment brings effortless access to love, understanding, and the quiet guidance of wisdom - an inner source that transforms how we experience life, relationships, and well-being.
Dr. Pettit has a unique gift for bringing simplicity to apparent complexity, often through real-life stories filled with hope and humor.
This gathering is a gentle invitation to settle, to listen, and rediscover the wisdom and well-being that are already yours.
Finding Stillness
Awakening to Love, Wisdom, Creativity and Relationship Ease
3rd + 4th October 2026
Horten, Norway
Welcome to a truly special weekend in Horten.
This is a rare opportunity to experience Dr. Bill Pettit — a man with deep insight into life, a big heart, and a unique ability to communicate something simple and true that touches people on a profound level.
Over the course of two days, you are invited into a calm and living exploration of the wisdom that already exists within all of us.
Finding Stillness
Awakening to Love, Wisdom, Creativity and
Relationship Ease
10th + 11th October 2026
Galway, Ireland
Join us for a heartfelt two day exploration of the spiritual wisdom within each of us that Sydney Banks pointed to so persistently and eloquently.
Throughout the weeknd, we will explore how resting in the present moment brings effortless access to love., understanding, and the quiet guidance of wisdom - an inner source that can profoundly transform how we experience life, relationships, and wellbeing.
Drawing upon more than four decades of exploring the Three Universal Principles of Mind, Consciousness, and Thought, Dr. Pettit shares a rare blend of spiritual insight, medicine, neuroscience, psychology, and psychiatry with warmth, simplicity, humor, and humanity.
Finding Stillness
Awakening to Love, Wisdom, Creativity and
Relationship Ease
17th + 18th October 2026
Stockholm, Sweden
Join us for a heartfelt two day exploration of the spiritual wisdom within each of us that Sydney Banks pointed to so persistently and eloquently.
We will explore how resting in the present moment brings effortless access to love., understanding, and the quiet guidance of wisdom - an inner source that can profoundly transform how we experience life, relationships, and wellbeing.
Throughout the weekend, Dr. Pettit will draw upon more than four decades of exploring the Three Universal Principles of Mind, Consciousness, and Thought - gifted to Sydney Banks. His 26 years of personal mentoring by Mr. Banks have led to deep insights into the meeting point of spiritual faith, medicine, neuroscience, psychology, and psychiatry.
Dr. Pettit has a unique gift for bringing simplicity to apparent complexity, often through real-life stories filled with hope and humor. This gathering is a gentle invitation to settle, to listen, and rediscover the wisdom and well-being that are already yours.
Healing From the Past and Returning to Our Innate Wholeness
Awakening to a Natural State of Love and Understanding
Dr Bill Pettit and Dr Rani Bora 23rd + 24th October 2026
The Castle at Taunton, Taunton, Somerset UK
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.
This is a trip that Dr Pettit will not be undertaking again which makes it an even more precious opportunity.
Finding Stillness
Awakening to Love, Wisdom, Creativity and
Relationship Ease
27th + 28th October 2026
Albir Spain
Over these two days, we’ll spend time with selected passages from The Enlightened Gardener and The Enlightened Gardener Revisited. Not as a study group, and not as something to analyse — but as a doorway into reflection, conversation, and fresh seeing.
Bill has devoted more than forty years to exploring the implications of Mind, Consciousness, and Thought within medicine, psychiatry, psychology, and neuroscience. Yet when you are with him, what stands out most is the simplicity. The humour. The humility of someone who still considers himself a student of this work.
This weekend isn’t about adding anything new. It’s about settling. Listening. Allowing the noise of thought to quieten enough for something deeper to be felt again.
The ViVA Event:
Celebrating and exploring the
expansion of the Three Principles
October 31st through November 2nd
Albir, Spain
Join Dr. Pettit as a keynote speaker in celebrating and exploring the expansion of the Three Principles in Europe and beyond while at the same time deepening your own level of understanding.
Join us for this wonderful Three Principles based event to celebrate and explore the living joy that is available within us all; connecting in a way that brings us together in a powerful shared experience.
Hi, I am Dr. Bill Pettit
For forty-plus years, I have been a global influencer in bringing a new level of understanding and thinking to medicine, neuroscience, psychiatry, and the healing professions. This understanding has ignited a healthy, healing fire bringing incremental relief of mental and physical distress throughout the world.
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