Adonelle: May 2026 Recap

May was an important month for Adonelle, shaped by one major step in particular: the public launch of Adonelle Journal.

After the publication of Adonelle Touch, the launch event in Tartu, early public talks, and the first deeper responses to the framework, the work continued to move outward: into the Journal, library discovery, international conversations, and public dialogue around sex-positive values, trust, and organisational life.

The central question remains the same:

What if the same values that make relationships healthy could also help organisations thrive?

Adonelle Journal Is Now Live

In early May, Adonelle Journal was launched publicly.

The Journal gives Adonelle a dedicated publishing space for essays, Field Notes, and framework reflections on trust, leadership, branding, culture, sexuality, and human experience in business.

It continues the work that began with Adonelle Touch and creates a place where the conversation around sex-positive values, business, and trust can develop over time.

By the end of May, the Journal already included pieces on brand emotional safety, Baltic Pride, book reviews, library discovery, why the book was written, and more.

For me, this is an important step because Adonelle is not only a book or a framework. It is also a conversation. The Journal gives that conversation a place to grow.

A Strong Endorsement from the Center for Positive Sexuality

Following the Center for Positive Sexuality Monthly Lecture Series event at the end of April, Emily E. Prior, M.A., Founder and Executive Director of the Center for Positive Sexuality in Los Angeles, shared a strong endorsement of Adonelle Touch:

“Adonelle Touch is a pioneering bridge between positive sexuality and organisational life. This is important information, and the framework offers a practical way to bring inclusivity, consent, openness, and empowerment into leadership, branding, and business culture. To our knowledge, it is one of the first structured attempts to apply positive sexuality to organisations in this way, and it opens the door to studying how businesses change when they adopt these principles. We encourage you to see how this can apply to your business endeavours.”

This means a lot because it comes from a community and organisation deeply connected to the field of positive sexuality. One of the most meaningful parts of this journey has been seeing people from that field recognise the importance of bringing these values into organisational and business life.

Adonelle Touch Appeared on WorldCat

Another significant development in May was seeing Adonelle Touch listed on WorldCat, the world’s largest online library catalogue.

This matters because WorldCat helps libraries, researchers, educators, and readers discover and locate books across institutions internationally. For a new framework that sits between positive sexuality, leadership, branding, culture, and organisational life, discoverability in library and research contexts is especially important.

Alongside availability through library and reading platforms, this helps the book move beyond retail channels and into professional, academic, and public learning environments.

Conversation Copies Continue to Travel

During May, Conversation Copies of Adonelle Touch also continued to be sent internationally.

The purpose of these copies is to invite researchers, educators, leaders, practitioners, and thoughtful readers into dialogue with the work. The book has already been shared across Europe, North America, and Australia, and the conversations are ongoing.

This is not only about distribution. It is about opening the framework to response, critique, application, teaching, research, and wider professional and public discussion.

That dialogue is an important part of how Adonelle Touch develops from a book into a living framework.

Baltic Pride Shared Our Reflection

In May, Baltic Pride shared the Adonelle Journal article Why We Support Baltic Pride.

The article reflected on visibility, shame, sexuality, children, public conversation, and why silence does not protect people or communities. It felt important to say clearly that we support Baltic Pride and its 2026 message, “Silence won’t defeat hate.”

Their response was warm and meaningful. They recognised the article for its humanity and calm clarity, and noted the value of seeing people and businesses express their support visibly.

For Adonelle, this mattered because the values behind the framework are not only business ideas. Inclusivity, consent, openness, and empowerment also belong in public life. Supporting visibility and honest conversation around sexuality and identity is part of living those values, not only writing about them.

Work Continues on the New Adonelle Website

Behind the scenes, May was also a month of continued work on the next version of adonelle.com.

The new site is being developed to present Adonelle more clearly as a framework-led advisory translating sex-positive values into strategy for leadership, branding, culture, and trust-driven organisations.

The goal is to make the work easier to understand, easier to explore, and easier to bring into organisations through advisory, audits, workshops, speaking, research, and collaboration.

If all goes well, the new site will be published in June.

Looking Ahead

May helped clarify the shape of Adonelle as an ecosystem:

Adonelle Touch as the book and framework.
Adonelle Journal as the publishing space.
Conversation Copies as an invitation into dialogue.
Research and collaboration as a path for deeper inquiry and application.
The new Adonelle website as the next step in making the work more accessible, practical, and visible.

What is emerging is not just a project, but a connection between worlds that are rarely brought together: positive sexuality, leadership, branding, organisational culture, trust, and human experience in business.

That connection is already moving through different kinds of conversations: professional, academic, public, cultural, and personal.

That is exactly where I hoped it would begin.

Thank you to everyone who has read, responded, shared, questioned, supported, or entered the conversation so far.