—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 ——
EXPAND IN EVERY ENVIRONMENT.
THREE WAYS
TO JOIN US
1
THE OBSERVER
Free — Earn 50 Points
Watch & Learn. Follow @slowdesignclub for useful, inspired posts on slow design and the four environments in action. Every other Thursday through Sunday, starting this Spring. Join us below.
2
THE STORY CHANGER
$300/annual — Earn 300 Points
Get Free & Clear. Tell a new story about your four environments, for real. Includes our bespoke audio series with real life essays, operating systems, & quarterly Q & As. Coming this Spring.
3
THE AESTHETIC FORCE
$100/mo — Earn 100 Points
Curate Your Visual Power. Slow down & tap into an aesthetic force that makes space for the home and wardrobe that feels like the real, bold you. We’ll lead the way. Coming this Spring.
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.