Joy Mittens

10/08/2026

Some of the most meaningful parts of ADA are made possible by the people whose contribution often happens quietly behind the scenes. ✨

This September, there are still a few places within our Support Teams for those who would love to experience ADA2k26 while becoming an active part of co-creating it with us.

Three different ways to contribute are currently open:

🫂 Emotional Support - for experienced space holders who can offer grounded, compassionate presence to participants navigating emotionally significant moments throughout their journey.

🤲 Facilitation Assistants - for those who would love to work alongside our Circle of Guides, preparing spaces and supporting the technical and practical needs of workshops, ceremonies and performances.

🪄 Venue Alchemists - for those who enjoy hands-on teamwork, preparing and tending to our communal spaces so that every temple, pathway and shared area remains welcoming, functional and alive.

If one of these roles is already whispering your name, comment SUPPORT below or send us SUPPORT via DM, and all the details about the roles, contribution exchange and application process will land directly in your inbox. 💌

One last chance to step behind the scenes, become part of the hands and hearts holding ADA, and co-create the wonder with us before we meet again in 2028.

🪞 WE ARE ALL ONE
🗓️ 15-20 September
📍 Ada Bojana, Montenegro
🎟️ adawakening.me

10/08/2026

Yesterday I wept

It began with some news story about some old growth forest that has existed since the ice ages going up in smoke.

That cut me, cut through the numbness that has been growing with all the stories of bombed schools and poisoned land, and I weep for the state of the world. I weep for a world losing its species and biodiversity. I weep for a world at war, committing cruelties beyond imagining on its fellow human beings. I weep for a world disconnected from the fresh air and clean rushing rivers and unbroken vibrant forests. I weep for the system that keeps us in servitude to the purveyors of money who don’t seem to have the interests of a beautiful world at heart. I don’t see a way through. I don’t see how we come through this. The forces directing the resources of this world are too great for me to influence in any meaningful way. The cliff edge is approaching and the last opportunity to apply the breaks was long ago.

And I reflect on the impertinence of everything. This too shall pass. This day. This country. This forest. This species. This world. This solar system. Everything, eventually dies. What is the point of cultivating a flower in a garden you know is going to burn? What is the point of living when you know you are going to die?

So I only ask that you hold my hand, and allow my tears, and offer your own if they are there. And tell me how beautiful are my tears and how pure my open heart. Let’s open our hearts to the beauty and the vibrancy of the forest that was teaming with life, that is now burning.

So I cultivate my flowers, to simply revel in the beauty of their existence in the here and now. The joy and the grief all rolled into one exquisite moment of heartbreaking beauty. Feel it all. Or feel nothing.

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Is that a bit bleak? This mood comes over me every now and again, and I feel it’s important to feel it, rather than avoid it - and actually that's the only true path to more Joy. I find the episode of The Emerald Podcast: “I wish it could have been another way” really helps me to dive into it and get it all out.

It was the day before my bleed, which is always a good day for a good cry - and also after working two weeks in the office in computer code land, (which I am very grateful for to have that as my way to fund my life), but can leave me feeling disembodied and disenchanted about life.

But soon I will be creating more art installations and facilitating workshops at festivals - growing my flowers.

26/07/2026

Science catching up with the obvious - humans need touch.

Physical contact is vital for our wellbeing. New research is revealing why

15/07/2026

https://adawakening.me/support-team