About SPIRITUS

David Moore

B.A., B.D., Grad. Dip. Ed., Cert. Spiritual Direction, SCA, ANSD

David is a father, grandfather, brother, partner, and a life-long seeker.

He has worked as industrial chemist, media educator, actor, parish priest, spiritual guide, and as chaplain in education, health, and commercial sectors.

David's passion is to empower individuals and organisations to enhance their creativity and contribution through spiritual growth and development.

NB: SCA (Spiritual Care Australia), ANSD (Australian Network for Spiritual Direction)

Recommendation

'David holds space with a gentle steadiness that invites the soul’s unfolding. His gift lies not in filling silence, but in honouring it — creating a depth of stillness that invites honesty without pressure. In his presence, something within me is able to surface and be seen, not hurried or fixed, simply witnessed. I always leave with a greater sense of ease and peace.'
'SPIRITUS helped me to rediscover and address my own spirituality - to see how this empowers me in my professional and personal life.'

Ways of Working

David tailors the approach according to each client's needs and circumstances.
Ways of working include:

One-on-one SPIRITED Conversation

Spiritual development for small groups

Retreats and quiet days

SPIRITUS services are offered in-person to clients in Perth/Booloo, Western Australia,

via Zoom for elsewhere in the world

SPIRITUS CONSULTING

SPIRITED Conversation

Our inner voice is a guiding light, our compass and strength through life’s adventures and tumults. But with so many competing demands for our time and attention, in an era of ever-increasing challenges and complexity, of many opinions and voices, the one voice that becomes harder to really hear is our own.

Thus, to hear our selves, to really hear our deepest inner self, is the most potent resource and the greatest gift available to us.

Our self takes its initial shape from the milieus which form us: family, culture, religion, education, workplace. If we’re fortunate, these early worldviews serve us well initially. But our self is not a static unchanging element. Rather, like every other part of creation, our self is bound to be an evolutionary phenomenon. Just as psychological development involves an evolution of understanding, likewise the worldviews of childhood and young adulthood must undergo many transformations.

It becomes vital to distinguish between the self as defined by family, culture, religion, workplace, and market forces, from the self who is organically and authentically coming to birth. Hearing our self, really hearing our evolving inner selves, requires patient attention, absolute trust and confidentiality, and deep and attentive listening.

SPIRITUS Consulting offers the safe and confidential listening-space to empower individuals to really hear their own evolving inner voice, and thus to discern their own authentic answers and durable solutions.

SPIRITED Conversation honours each individual's ground: to be guided by what is authentic to each person; to listen for what is emerging in the individual's unfolding life circumstances.

SPIRITUS CONSULTING

Soul Work

'One of the most calming and powerful actions you can do to intervene in a stormy world is to stand up and show your soul. Soul on deck shines like gold in dark times.' Clarissa Pinkola Estes

Known also as Spiritual Direction, Befriending, and Companioning, this work attunes a person to the stirrings of the spirit of life - variously understood as God, Sacred Mystery, the Holy, the Ultimate, Ground of All Being, Life Source.

It is the ancient human journey of the soul, a loving attention to true essence, acknowledging that human lives have their deepest grounding through transcending the ego-self.

Soul work is a very personal commitment to the awakening, discovery, and transformation that takes place when there is an intentional, respectful, nurturing and loving attention given to the presence and movement of the spirit of life as it manifests in the everyday experience of each person's unique life journey.  

Soul work is a conversation between a person's own foundational spiritual tradition and the unfolding experience of personal, professional, and communal lives, informed by spiritual tradition and all the discoveries of the sciences and humanities.

What can you expect? The adventure of a journey towards communion of mind, body, heart, and soul. 

SPIRITUS CONSULTING

What is Spirituality?

Spirituality is a universal natural human foundation, that aspect of humanity by which individuals seek and express meaning and purpose, and the way they experience their connectedness to the moment, to self, to others, to nature, and to what is ultimate. 

People experience spirituality in many forms: belief, religious traditions, sacred writings, scientific enquiry, stories of origins, rituals, meditation practices, the natural world, art, music, creativity, love, community, work, self-reflection, intellectual enquiry, dreams and other numinous encounters, and so on.

Spirituality is the foundational aspect of being human, the source of all human thought, action and relating, and the deepest origin for resilience, hope and freedom. 

Spirituality is the practice of  growing towards our true selves; becoming fully human.

'What will you do with this one wild and precious life?' 

Mary Oliver