The Innate Power of a Playful Mindset: Cultivating Joy Through Imagination, Curiosity, and Reconnecting with the Child-Self

S Pomerantz 2025

As coaches, it is important for us to nurture our own experience of joy so that we can help clients facilitate theirs. In day-to-day adult life, joy can be elusive. Modern capitalist society does not prioritize joy, so it has become easy for us to put our individual experience of joy on the back-burner. If adulthood does not explicitly require joy for execution of tasks and advancement, perhaps we can explore the notion of leaving our ‘adult selves,’ or our analytical and efficiency-driven mindset, to the side. For just a few minutes, instead of interpreting from the ‘doing’ mind that many operate from most of the time, can you connect with ‘being’? While engaging with this article I invite you to consider the idea of cultivating more joy from a place of curiosity and play, rather than judging your own perceived lack of joy.