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Agenda
6:00 PM - 7:00 PM
Happy Hour & Mingling
7:00 PM - 7:30 PM
Speaker's story
7:30 PM - 8:30 AM (+1 day)
Family style dinner is served
8:30 PM - 9:00 PM
Dessert is served, Q&A with speaker
WHAT: GP Dinner #191 | Alone in the Dark w/Nick Jankel
WHERE: Jeremy's Loft, 54 Washburn Street, San Francisco, CA 94103
WHEN: 6:00 to 10:00pm on October 1st, 2025
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 191st dinner on October 1st at Jeremy's Loft in San Francisco.
Expect cocktails at 6:00 & 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 & informal.
About Good People Dinners: GP Dinners is a community built around meaningful conversations & 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 & regularly create tailored dinner series for a wide range of companies & organizations.
Our dinners are hosted at a variety of venues in the Bay Area, at Camp Earnest near Yosemite NP & around the country & the world. Every dinner includes a speaker on a topic of wide ranging interest & a chef prepared feast. To learn more about us, please visit our Founding Principles page.
Please email us at least 72 hours in advance if you have any dietary restrictions & we'll do our best to accommodate them.
OUR SPEAKER:
Our friend Nick Jankel is an internationally celebrated author, professional speaker, futurist, leadership theorist-practitioner, & entrepreneur based in Los Angeles.
Nick has authored books & articles on a wide range of topics. A Cambridge-educated medical scientist & philosopher, Nick has spent three decades cracking the code of transformation (whether in the form of disruptive innovation, systemic change, or transformative leadership) while serving the purpose-led growth of ambitious organizations like Virgin, Genentech, & Microsoft, writing & hosting network TV shows, & walking the talk as a 10x purpose-driven entrepreneur.
We connected with Nick on many topics, but chiefly through this article on what he calls Mettamodernism, which advocates for rituals of passage & meaning making across traditional differences (political, religious, ethnic, etc.).
Tonight we will discuss Nick's relationship with "The Dark," solitary retreats alone in total darkness, designed with & guided by transformative facilitators & somatic therapists to cultivate much-needed wisdom, wholeness, aliveness, & fearlessness.
What can such isolation, alone with our mind's terrors & traumas, teach us about the human experience & what each of us, individually or collectively, might best do with our time in the world?
How can isolation reignite our sense of connection & interdependence with the wider world?
How can complete darkness bring us closer to penetrating insight & even enlightenment?
Can darkness journeys unlock the responsible AI & regenerative tech that is so urgent right now?
And could such experiences cultivate the depth & breadth of character needed to help lead humanity out of our current metacrisis?
We look forward to discussing this with all of you on October 1st at Jeremy's Loft in San Francisco.
OUR CHEF:
Chris Ratcliff is a private chef & Bay Area native who brings true Michelin credentials to his events. Chris grew up visiting farmers markets & foraging for mushrooms & huckleberries at his family's ranch in Mendocino. He possesses a deep-rooted passion for local, seasonal, farm-fresh ingredients. His menus, crafted for each event, reflect his diverse culinary experiences & unwavering dedication to sourcing the finest quality ingredients.
Since attending Tante Marie Cooking School in San Francisco, Chris honed his skills at Three Michelin Starred Quince & the world-renowned Astrid y Gaston in Peru. He held the position of Sous Chef at Cotogna here in SF & his final restaurant role was as Chef de Cuisine at Seven Hills before transitioning to a career as a private chef.
Chris & his wife live in the East Bay with their 2 children. When they are not visiting his wife's home country of Peru for cultural & culinary inspiration, you will find Chris cooking up amazing meals & sharing his recipes with his clients & community.
OUR MENU:
To Start:
Tuna Nicoise with Little Gem Cups - Point Arena landed confit Albacore nicoise, kalamata olives, pickled shallots, parsley, Oz Farm Heirloom tomatoes, served with little gem lettuce cups.
Tomato & cucumber Salad - Sungold tomatoes, sweet 100's, Early girl tomatoes, serpent cucumber, lemon cucumber, pickled shallots, baguette croutons, frisee, basil oil.
Mains:
Braised beef Zabuton (Served with Zesty Salsa rossa).
Brick Cooked Whole Mary's Organic Chicken (Served with Zesty Salsa rossa)
Arroz Verde - Peruvian green rice, sofrito peruano, english peas, carrots, cilantro.
Baby Carrots - Mcguins farm carrots, cipollini onions, fine herbs.
Potato fondant - Full belly farm Binje potatoes, Iacopi farm English pea, glazed with vegetable stock & butter.
To Finish:
Peaches & cream - Strauss cream panna cotta, Yellow peach compote, shortbread cookie crumble.
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Please email us at least 72 hours in advance if you have any dietary restrictions & we'll do our best to accommodate them.
Drinks at 6:00, dinner at 7:00. Though a cocktail & 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 ramanfrey@gmail.com
To sign up for future events, please register at
www.gpdinners.com
To learn more about the former summer camp we've purchased & 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
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