Nicholas Collura
Nicholas Collura is a spiritual director and visiting retreat director at St. Raphaela Center in Haverford, PA. A board-certified healthcare chaplain and Enneagram teacher, he currently serves as a chaplain at MIT. There he also directs Radius, an ethics program committed to challenging uncritical narratives of technological progress.
He earned a Master of Divinity and trained as a spiritual director at the Boston College Clough School of Theology and Ministry. A former Jesuit, Nicholas has also ministered on several college campuses, at a L’Arche community in the Pacific Northwest and at juvenile halls and adult state prisons in California.
His website is www.nicholascollura.com.
Events with Nicholas Collura
Open Dates
On Demand Programs from Cranaleith: Purchase a copy of Nicholas Collura’s presentations for this program, presented online in September-October, 2023. You will receive a pdf of links to the videos from each of four sessions. You may then watch the videos at your leisure. Why the Enneagram? Why now? Pursuing spiritual work without working on our personality typically results in a lack of resolution of deep-seated issues and a lack of true integration of our spirituality…. This perspective can profoundly shift our understanding. Sandra Maitri As we begin to re-enter personal and professional relationships that were long put on hold, we…
Converting Vice to Virtue with the Help of the Ennegram - on demandOpen Dates
On Demand Programs from Cranaleith: Purchase a copy of Nicholas Collura’s presentations for this program, presented online in February-March, 2023. You will receive a pdf of links to the videos from each of four sessions. You may then watch the videos at your leisure. In this second part of Cranaleith’s Enneagram series, learn spiritual practices to move you beyond the “stuck place” that keeps you from living fully. According to the legendary Enneagram teacher Helen Palmer, all of us have a connection to a vital “life force” that can carry us through difficulty. Yet this life force becomes constricted as…
Open Dates
On Demand Programs from Cranaleith: Purchase a copy of Nicholas Collura’s presentations for this program, presented online in September-October, 2023. You will receive a pdf of links to the videos from each of four sessions. You may then watch the videos at your leisure. In this third part of Cranaleith’s Enneagram series, regain the direct perception of the divine reality you have lost. The fulfillment that is being in love with God is not the product of our knowledge and choice. It is God’s gift. So far from resulting from our knowledge and choice, it dismantles and abolishes the horizon…
Laudato Si’: Vision and Reality Ten Years LaterNovember 2, 2025
“What [we] need is an ecological conversion, whereby the effects of [our] encounter with Jesus Christ become evident in [our] relationship with the world around [us]. Living our vocation to be protectors of God’s handiwork is essential to a life of virtue; it is not an optional or a secondary aspect of our Christian experience.” (LS, 217) Gather with us to celebrate the 10th Anniversary of Laudato Si’, the watershed document that continues to inspire and challenge us. Our panel will reflect on its far-reaching impact, explore the urgent work still before us, and consider how Pope Francis’ vision remains a guiding…