—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 PATH ——
BEGINNER, INTERMEDIATE, OR ADVANCED.
THREE WAYS
TO JOIN US
1
THE SLOW OBSERVER
Beginner
Take Your Time. Follow @slowdesignclub for intimate, inspired entries that embody the benefits & practices of slow design in real, everyday life. Every other Friday through Sunday, starting this Spring.
2
THE STORY CHANGER
Intermediate
Get Free & Clear. When you’ve finally slowed down enough to explore a new story about your four environments, for real. Includes our self-study, slow teaching library of lived wisdom essays, guided operating systems, & open Q & As.
3
THE SPEAK EASY
Advanced
Gather & Share. Once a season-ish, we connect with women who are deep in their journey of slow design & the four environments — sharing stories and strategies via an intimate, themed experience. Invite only. Join the waitlist.
SLOW
GATHERING HOURS
GATHERING FOR CREATIVE REST & PLAY 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.