IT’S YOUR TIME —
BY DESIGN.
A CONCEPTUAL + PHYSICAL SPACE
WHERE BRILLIANT, WORLDBUILDING WOMEN SLOW DOWN & STEP INTO THEIR TRUE DESIGN — IN EVERY ENVIRONMENT.
you know the four agreements? our WORK is LIKE THAT — EXCEPT WITH the four environments.
OUR ETHOS
Our ethos? Women are designed to thrive in an ecosystem of environments that nourish them and, in turn, their big work in the world. We call this ecosystem The Four Environments, and it centers our approach to slow design as an essential, liberating technology & operating system that every brilliant, worldbuilding woman should learn in her lifetime(s). Because in a world that has taught us we need to be “fixed,” our real life starts when we break free from our default environments — and design ones that fill us and feel like us instead. WHEW. This is the work, the way, and the wisdom that changes everything, yes? Join us.
01. THE SELF ENVIRONMENT
02. THE HOME ENVIRONMENT
03. THE CREATION ENVIRONMENT
04. THE RELATIONAL ENVIRONMENT
—OUR ORIGIN
STORY
Founder-Creator Kaira Akita in her first home environment post divorce & peak pandemic, circa October 2020.
Slow design as a technology & an operating system first entered my consciousness in 2019. It was the year I turned forty and a big year of family, career, partnership, and self reckoning on every single level you can imagine. For the first time, I truly slowed down and stopped trying to “fix” myself — and made the tough choice to change my environments instead.
The result? I discovered I was designed for so much more ease & freedom than those default, harsh environments could allow. And without being placed and watered in the right spaces? My growth would be stunted — spiritually, mentally, emotionally. And so, with much slowness, solitude, & sisterhood, I learned how to ask better questions so I could design the right environments to nourish myself, and in turn, my big work in the world.
Today, I’m grateful to be sitting in the middle of a life that fills me and feels like me. I want the same for you and every other brilliant, worldbuilding woman who is also ready to slow down and step into her true design, for real.
Welcome to the club, my friend. I have so much to share with you. Slowly but surely. It’s time — by design.
CHOOSE YOUR SLOW DESIGN PATH ——
CHANGE EVERYTHING.
THREE WAYS TO DESIGN WITH US
1
SLOW DESIGN LIBRARY
Craft Your Four Environments, by Design
New stories (and questions!) about your four environments can change everything. Get first access to our members-only teaching library — powered by the slow design technology & O.S. you deserve.
2
SLOW DESIGN CONVERSATIONS
For Podcasts, Groups, & Private Events
We love to talk all things slow design thinking, the four design environments, and the intersection of big work & the well-designed woman. Book us for practical, intimate, and innovative convos with deep perspective and impact.
3
FOUNDER’S LEDGER
Get the Kaira Akita Interior Design Treatment
Each year, our founder opens her ledger for a few private clients ready to slow down, get out of their own way, and receive a pro transformation for their best home environment experience yet.
SLOW
SOCIAL HOURS
GATHERING ONLINE, IN REAL LIFE, And via snail mail, too.
Follow @slowdesignclub for our latest slow social hours — designed month-to-month with (y)our journey in mind.
