Jürgen Nagler

Jürgen Nagler is an international development practitioner with 25 years’ experience successfully delivering global, regional and field projects with UNDP, the UN Global Compact, international NGOs and private sector.

Holding a first-class BA in Business Administration and MA in International Development, he is currently on sabbatical from UNDP, undertaking PhD research on the role of mindsets for transformative development & global wellbeing. #WellbeingMindset

Jürgen Nagler in Kosmos

Toward a Global Wellbeing Mindset

We can rethink, create, and implement a growth paradigm that goes beyond the economy, and that includes inner, collective, and planetary wellbeing.

Published in Volume 21 Issue 3

The Sustainable Development Goals Begin with Mindset

We protect and develop what we cherish, what we feel part of and connected with. Therefore, how can we nurture three essential connections: with our inner being, our communities and Mother Nature?

Published in Volume 20 Issue 3

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The Village Way

Practices for Belonging in a Fragmented World

For thousands of years, we lived according to the principles of village life. Then, around the 14th Century, our lives were reorganized by rulers around growth and accumulation – often at the cost of community, equity, and the living Earth. What would it mean to return to simplicity, and mutual care?

Join us for a 9-month inquiry into this question, exploring how we participate together in a time that calls us back to community, resilience, and shared life,