Grateful Giraffes

Grateful Giraffes

Welcome to the Oasis

A community built on gratitude: gatherings, offerings, and people who show up for each other.

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Gatherings

There’s always a seat at the fire.

2026October

Traditions

  • About forty Giraffes posed together on the floor and couches of a living room at the second Tower Feast

    Evenings of Gratitude

    152 dinners since 2022

    A potluck dinner in a Giraffe’s home: candles, blessings, and a turn each to say what we’re grateful for.

    The second Tower Feast, Santa Monica, July 2023

  • An overhead view of a sunlit brick loft full of guests on couches and yellow cushions at Biohacking Safari

    Biohacking Safari

    Seven since 2023

    A day of health tech, practitioners, panels and recovery, with the herd.

    Biohacking Safari #7 at Primal Moves, 2026

  • Rows of guests lying on mats on a rooftop lawn between downtown Los Angeles towers at Olympus

    Big nights

    Up to 700 guests a night

    A few times a year the herd throws a festival: Safari Fest, Olympus, Oxytocin, Giraffest.

    Olympus on a downtown LA rooftop, 2024

  • About forty Giraffes and two dogs posed together in a garden at a Brunch of Giraffes

    A Brunch of Giraffes

    20 brunches since 2023

    A Sunday potluck brunch around one long table.

    A Brunch of Giraffes at Little City Farm, 2023

  • Glowing crystal singing bowls under string lights on a rooftop at night

    Sound journeys

    17 since 2023

    Cacao, crystal bowls, live music and long silences.

    Sound healing on a rooftop, 2023

  • About twenty-seven Giraffes and a dog posed together on a terrace at Friendsgiving

    Holy days

    18 holidays together since 2022

    We mark the year together: the High Holidays, Hanukkah, Friendsgiving, World Gratitude Day.

    Friendsgiving, 2024

  • Eight Giraffes holding lettuce in front of a real giraffe at the San Francisco Zoo

    Giraffes outside

    24 hikes, clean-ups and picnics since 2022

    Hikes, beach clean-ups and picnics, and once, real giraffes at the zoo.

    Giraffes at the Zoo, San Francisco, 2025

Our story · since 2022

A wall, a bus, a collapse, a pivot, a pop-up dinner table.

  1. A wall

    The purple and yellow Gratitude Wall in Tel Aviv, covered in handwritten notes under the words What are you grateful for, a child lying on the ground writing one more

    The Gratitude Wall in Habima Square, Tel Aviv, April 2022.

  2. A bus

    People seen from behind writing notes on the side of the white Grateful Bus, under the words What are you grateful for and painted giraffes in its windows

    Writing on the Grateful Bus in Venice, June 2022.

  3. A collapse

    Three blank white panels headed I want to thank you, with giraffe portraits and a QR code, leaning against a wall on a hotel carpet

    Our Thank You wall at NFT NYC, June 2022.

    Then the price of Ether collapsed and took the NFT market with it.

  4. A pivot to a pop-up dinner table

    A long dinner table under an orange cloth in a home kitchen, set with marble and turquoise plates and red wine, about fifteen guests seated along both sides and more talking by the stove

    An Evening of Gratitude in Venice, November 2022.

    We took that as information.

  5. 500 gatherings later

    About thirty-five Giraffes standing in a wide circle around a living room at dusk, each holding a lit tea candle, two hands with candles in the foreground

    An Evening of Gratitude Shabbat at Brentwood Hills, June 2026.

We started with twelve chairs and two folding tables in Venice. 500+ gatherings later, the people who kept showing up became the Giraffes: heads in the clouds, feet on the ground, big hearts. We’d love for you to be one of them.

Max & Julian
  • 2022Gathering since
  • 500+Gatherings
  • 15,000People gathered
  • 1,000Lifetime members

The way in

Become a Grateful Giraffe

Heads in the clouds, feet on the ground, big hearts.

  • Exclusive events

    Giraffe-only gatherings, auto-approval, and Giraffe pricing (20-50% off) on open events.

  • Exclusive offers

    Giraffe-only discounts and perks from the community and our partners.

  • Equity in Grateful Labs

    A welcome equity grant, and the ability to earn more in our venture studio.

  • Giraffe WhatsApp groups

    LA, SF, Austin, NYC, Miami and Israel.

  • Gigi, our Giraffe of Staff

    She gets to know you and finds the Giraffes in the network who can help you, and who you can help.

  • You get to say you’re a Grateful Giraffe

    Heads in the clouds, feet on the ground, big hearts.

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