An 8-Day Journey of Transformation: Insights, Healing, and Wholeness
Join me on a transformative 8-day exploration of my 42-year journey of discovery, learning, and witnessing extraordinary transformations. Spanning nine unique settings across eight states since January 1, 1983, this program invites reflection on profound insights and lessons that have shaped countless lives.
Key Themes of the Journey
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Personal Insights and Spiritual Growth
Discover how the Three Universal Principles, as shared by Sydney Banks, have deepened my spiritual consciousness, fostering love, forgiveness, wisdom, and presence.
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Evolving Teachings of Sydney Banks
Explore how mental health professionals, including myself, have interpreted and shared Banks’ transformative message, highlighting its impact on individuals and communities.
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Miraculous Healing
Reflect on seemingly miraculous recoveries from mental suffering and physical illness, as individuals rediscovered their innate wholeness, even in the face of “serious” psychiatric diagnoses.
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Incremental and Instant Transformations
Experience stories of gradual growth and sudden, profound shifts that challenge traditional psychological paradigms.
This journey celebrates the extraordinary potential for healing and transformation within each of us, guided by the wisdom and grace that have shaped my life and work.
“Whatever we have been doing for five decades, it ain’t working. And when I look at the numbers – numbers of suicides, the number of disabilities, the mortality data – it’s abysmal, and it’s not getting any better. All the ways in which we’ve approached these illnesses, and with a lot of people working very hard, the outcomes we’ve got to this point are pretty bleak.”
Thomas Insel M.D. psychiatrist,
Director of the National Institute of Mental Health 2002-2015.
Witnessing Miracles: 4+ Decades of Learning to Listen, Love and Share.
Who Is This Course For?
• Professionals in mental health, education, or healing seeking a reliable path to guide others toward well-being.
• Individuals facing chronic mental stress and its emotional or physical effects.
• Those burdened by past experiences despite trying other therapies.
• Anyone curious about the roots of resilience and stress resistance.
• Those ready to embrace their true spiritual essence in the human journey.
“Our true identity is of a spiritual nature, and it is hidden in the very depths of each living soul on earth”
Sydney Banks, The Enlightened Gardener, 2001
Course Description
After this Program, Participants Will Be Able To:
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Explain how the Universal Principles of Mind, Consciousness, and Thought reveal the nature of the creative Energy behind all experience.
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Define "spiritual consciousness" as the evolving understanding of our spiritual essence and its link to psychological and physical well-being.
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Describe how spiritual healing naturally fosters psychological and often physical healing.
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Discuss resistance to revolutionary paradigms in science and medicine due to entrenched interests in the status quo.
Recommended pre-reading [if not read in the past year]:
Dear Liza, Second Chance, and In Quest of the Pearl by Sydney Banks
Recommended Pre-Viewing [if not viewed in the past year]:
The Hawaii Lectures by Sydney Banks
Continuing Education
Many U.S. and global licensed healthcare professionals have requested professional CEs for continuing education toward re-licensure.
Witnessing Miracles offers 32 continuing education contact hours which are available for purchase after completing Dr. Pettit's course.
CEs can be purchased through Advanced Holistic Health at NurseCoaching.com. Advanced Holistic Health is a continuing education provider approved by the California Board of Registered Nursing, provider #CEP16464.
All different types of health professionals can utilize Nursing CE’s.
Check with your state licensing board.
“Those who experience inner peace are spontaneous and do not act out of fear. They rely on their feelings instead of past experiences.
When you have a beautiful feeling, you lose interest in judging other people and you lose interest in interpreting the actions of other people. You don’t worry as much. You have contented feelings and feel connected with other people and nature.
Those who follow a positive feeling let things happen instead of trying to make things happen. They live, love, and laugh. When you are present in the moment, you are grateful and content to just be!... Understanding the Three Principles has allowed me to live my life with gratitude.”
Molly Raudenbush
COURSE FORMAT
Sessions: 9:30-12 noon - 2:30-5:00 pm
two 60-minute sessions in am and pm each with 30-minute break.
THE FOUR DECADE JOURNEY
August 1973 - April 1983
Syd Banks experience, Salt Spring Island, British Columbia, Canada
(based on conversations with those who were there from the start)
January 1 - July 1983
San Francisco Bay Area, California U.S.A.
Dr. George Pransky and Linda Pransky, Sydney Banks, Keith Blevens Ph.D., Mark Howard Ph.D., Bill Hutcherson Ph.D.
July 1983 – July 1984
Galesburg, Illinois-consultant to Galesburg State Mental Hospital; private practice; Cottage and St. Mary’s Hospitals
August 1984 – June 1985
Coral Gables Florida-Advanced Human Studies Institute (AHSI); Baptist South Miami Hospital. Enrique Suarez Ph.D., Roger Mills Ph.D., Kimberly Kiddoo Ph. D. Also met Hazel Foss, Lori Carpenos, M.Ed., LMFT, Rita Shuford, Ph.D., Shane Kennedy, Richard Conard, M.D., Reese Coppage.
July 1985 – September 1990
Bradenton, Florida-Psychiatric Institute of Florida
Manatee Memorial Hospital, Blake Memorial Hospital, Sarasota Palms Hospital
Hazel Foss, Drema Sue Odum R.N., Clytee Lally-Mills N.P. Psychiatry, Richard Conard M.D., Edward Dickerson M.D., Judith Sedgeman Ed.D. Reese Coppage
October 1990 - August 1994
Cherokee, Iowa-Cherokee Mental Health Institute (CMHI). Des Moines University Osteopathic Psychiatric Residency, Adjunct Clinical Faculty Des Moines University Medical School, Brian Fulton D.O., Ryan Hulbert Ph.D.
September 1994 -June 2002
Aberdeen South Dakota-Private Practice, Health Oriented Psychiatry and Education, [H.O.P.E], St. Luke’s Hospital, South Dakota State Hospital, Redfield, S.D. Consultant to 8 Nursing Homes. Arlin Myrmoe, M.D., Roy Burt M.D., Richard Conklin M.D.
December 1998 - July 2007
Consultant to Robert D’Allesandri, M.D., Chancellor of the West Virginia University Medical Center and Vice President of West Virginia University
July 2002 - August 2010
Morgantown, West Virginia-West Virginia School of Medicine, Assistant Professor then Associate Professor of Psychiatry, Medical Director of the Sydney Banks Institute of Innate Health, Consultation-Liaison Psychiatrist at West Virginia University Hospital, Robert D’Allesandri, M.D., Judith Sedgeman Ed.D., James Stevenson M.D. Jamie Shumway, Ph.D.
September – October 2010
Clarksburg Medical Center, Clarksburg Virginia
December 2010 – August 2011
Westin, West Virginia-William R. Sharpe Jr. Hospital; Associate Professor of Psychiatry, West Virginia University
September 2011 - May 2017
Tipton, Michigan-3 Principles online mentor and outpatient psychiatrist including Family Medical Center of Michigan - Adrian, Michigan; Adjunct Professor, Michigan State University Osteopathic Medical School, Adjunct Faculty, Siena Heights University
June 2017-Present
(North) Phoenix, Arizona, Adjunct Faculty, Creighton University School of Medicine, Coauthor of three published, peer-reviewed 3- Principles Based Articles; Creator of six - 3 Principles-based courses. Online spiritual consciousness educator, national and international presenter and consultant. Faculty, Advancing Nurse Coaching.
Telehealth Psychiatrist for Family Medical Center of Michigan, Adrian clinic
September 2017-December 2018 & July 15, 2024 -the present
COMING SOON IN A SELF-STUDY FORMAT
PRICE: TBD
*10% profits of the legacy programs will be donated to charitable organizations
5% locally to the Phoenix St. Vincent de Paul Free Medical Clinic
5% globally to 3P in Africa
“There are an infinite number of doors of insight regarding these Universal Principles.”
Sydney Banks, personal communication
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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