GP Dinner #194 | Context on Animism

WHAT: GP Dinner #194 | Context on Animism

WHERE: Jeremy's Loft, 54 Washburn Street, San Francisco, CA 94103

WHEN: 6:00 to 10:00pm on February 24th, 2026

PLEASE NOTE: ATTENDANCE LIMITED TO FIRST 40 PEOPLE WHO SECURE A TICKET HERE. YOU'RE WELCOME TO GIFT OR TRANSFER YOUR SPOT TO A FRIEND IF YOUR PLANS CHANGE. JUST LET US KNOW IN ADVANCE.

Please join us for our 194th dinner on February 24th at Jeremy's Loft in San Francisco.

Expect cocktails at 6:00 and our speaker around 6:45 with a family style feast introduced around 7:00, prepared by our professional chef. Wines will be thoughtfully paired with the menu.

ATTIRE: Attire is relaxed and informal.

About Good People Dinners: GP Dinners is a community built around meaningful ​conversations and delicious feasts, a moveable social club for those who value authenticity, a better way to connect with each other. We are also an event production business and regularly create tailored dinner series for a wide range of companies and organizations.

Our dinners are hosted at a variety of venues in the Bay Area, at Camp Earnest near Yosemite NP and around the country and the world. Every dinner includes a speaker on a topic of wide ranging interest and a chef prepared feast.

Please email us at least 72 hours in advance if you have any dietary restrictions and we'll do our best to accommodate them.

OUR SPEAKER:

On February 24th our friend Context (Joshua Kauffman) will join us for an intimate conversation that will be both playful and revealing.

Context will share the inner path which blossomed into his own way of sensing and inhabiting the world. A perceptual ecology was born.  Life itself was revivified, becoming responsive and participatory.

How does one arrive at a perceptual frame where nothing is inert and everything bears meaning? How has this animist and panentheist orientation, alongside an open embrace of sensuous and relational life, shaped the agendas of the organizations Context has helped to guide?

At the heart of this story is a quiet but consequential shift: what does it mean to relinquish an inherited, illusory sense of isolated human choice-making, and instead attune one’s life to the intelligence, needs, and well-being of living ecosystems? And how might this reorientation become a liberatory practice for all of us, and for the vast web of relationships that sustain and enrich them?

For those who don’t yet know Context, his life has moved fluidly among worlds from artist, advisor, graduate-school instructor, to venture capitalist. The consistent thread has been a lifetime devoted to human and planetary health and flourishing.

Central to this story is Context’s experience as co-founder of the animist family office Ground Effect, now known as Through this and related work, he brings a rare vantage on directing capital in service of living systems, and supporting new science and ventures in biodiversity and regeneration that invite deeper participation in life’s relational processes.

Earlier, Context was part of the founding team of the Quantified Self, a seminal techno-social movement that helped catalyze today’s fervor around biohacking, longevity, and functional medicine. He has also led award-winning design consultancies in places such as Rwanda, Cuba, and Kenya, working across city design, urban mobility, public art, and innovation for development.

How does a life transform when one begins to listen with greater amplitude?

What lessons in Context’s story might inform our own repatterning of our lives?

OUR CHEF:

Our friend Eric Minnich is a Bay Area-based private chef with Michelin-level training, specializing in fresh, seasonal ingredients.

Eric has worked with acclaimed chefs like Traci Des Jardins and Michael Mina and helped open nationally recognized restaurants.
With a passion for innovation, he collaborates with food companies to refine their products and leads the creation of unique dining experiences. Eric’s approach to food is simple, elegant and ingredient-driven.

OUR MENU:

To be announced soon.

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Please email us at least 72 hours in advance if you have any dietary restrictions and we'll do our best to accommodate them.

Drinks at 6:00, dinner at 7:00. Though a cocktail and some wine will be provided, guests are welcome to bring a bottle of wine to share.

Menu update will come soon to help you choose your bottles. We always make sure vegetarian friends will have plenty to eat. Please contact Raman or Karin in advance if you have any other dietary restrictions.

If you are wondering how you were included in this invitation, or would like to be removed, please contact [email protected]

To sign up for future events, please register at

www.gpdinners.com

To learn more about the former summer camp we've purchased and refurbished near Yosemite, please visit us here. Camp Earnest is available for a campus buyout for groups from 15 to 75 guests at a time.

www.campearnest.com

Above: Jaron Lanier speaks at a recent GP Dinner in support of the Gray Area Arts Foundation.

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