Assistant Professor
Seton Hall University
West Orange, New Jersey, United States
Dr. Nicotera serves as Assistant Professor at Seton Hall University and Director of NYU’s nationally recognized Post-Master’s Certificate Program in Spirituality and Social Work. He has been practicing clinically and teaching for over 20 years. He has published book chapters and scholarly journal articles on the Circle of Insight framework, a process he created to foster the practice of peace, justice, and transformative love, www.circleofinsight.org.
He teaches courses at the intersection of policy, race, law, social justice, spirituality, and social work, and helps lead the Fellowship of Reconciliation (FOR), the nation’s oldest, largest, multifaith peace organization. He worked with FOR member Thich Nhat Hanh, nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize by Dr. King, to create the award-winning The 5 Powers film. FOR members Arun Gandhi, and Nobel Peace Prize Laureate Mairead Maguire invited him to speak at peace-building and human rights conferences domestically and internationally. He regularly presents and provides workshops on social justice, spirituality, and social work.
He spent six years as a member of the Society of Jesus (the Jesuits), a religious order in the Roman Catholic tradition. As a Jesuit, he completed the Ignatian Spiritual Exercises, a thirty-day silent retreat, and worked internationally and domestically in prisons, hospice facilities, inner-city parishes and schools, and legal and social service centers. He has been arrested or detained some 20 times for faith-based nonviolent civil resistance. He also lived and worked in Latin America with community organizations and victims of war and violence, and in Calcutta with Saint Mother Teresa.
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Saturday, November 12, 2022
10:45 AM – 11:45 AM