Get yourself a cup of tea and join us.
Angela is a Canadian with a background in engineering who’s worked around the world and now publishes books and shares her approach to ‘Relaxed Productivity’.
John is a Welsh artist who now lives in Ireland, after 30 years as a performer, director, improvisor and teacher. He specialises in creativity, overcoming anxiety and developing presence & focus.
‘Humanitea’ is conversations between the two of us, and sometimes invited guests. We talk about keeping it real in an age of bullshit and bluster. Though we've not much in common, we've discovered we’ve got a hell of a lot in common.
We talk about keeping it authentic and honest, as we navigate the complexity and overwhelm of the modern world.
Together we set up School of Human Kind (www.schoolofhumankind.com) - an international network of coaches, thinkers, teachers, writers and others assorted humans.
We believe totally in the power of conversation, connection and kindness.
Come join us as we explore how to keep all three alive in this crazy world.
We've reached the end of Season 1 of Humanitea - and we're ending with a deep dive......
Angela and John get to chat with School of Human Kind faculty member Graham Watt
Graham works with engineers and scientists - mainly gay men - to help them find the confidence more fully to show up in their workplaces and their lives. He looks at the way that they - and all of us - hide parts of ourselves that we feel won't easily fit in. He invites us to explore what happens when we stop hiding and dare to shine.
At the same time, this week Angela has been experiencing some very nasty online abuse. That's the other side of visibility. It makes you vulnerable.
So that's where the conversations starts. Drawing on Graham's processes, we explore how to be visible (as so many of us who run businesses or are self-employed have to be), and how to balance that with the need for personal and emotional safety.
It's a big one.
So grab a cup of something wonderful, and join us.
You can find out more about Graham's work here: https://www.mycoachgraham.com (https://www.mycoachgraham.com) or on Linkedin at https://www.linkedin.com/in/mycoachgraham/ (https://www.linkedin.com/in/mycoachgraham/)
12 Sept 2026
Electronic Overwhelm
We start this conversation with a simple question.
John asks Angela how many emails there are in her inbox. Her answer (or is it a confession?) is a little shocking.
It's symptomatic of the reality we live in - constantly bombarded by digital 'stuff' - spam, marketing, newsletters, notifications and... just occasionally - something we may actually want to read.
Why do we keep it? What do we do with it all?
Angela coins a phrase to explain why she doesn't immediately delete so much of the stuff that she receives - Digital FOMO. What if there's something interesting/useful/important in there?
John suggests that having a cluttered inbox is like having a junk room in your house - most of the time you can pretend it's not there, but there is always a small emotional/psychic cost.
So we navigate the reality of living in an age of digital tsunami.
By the end of the 30 minutes, 20 more emails have appeared in Angela's inbox.....
4 Sept 2026
When Understanding Isn't Enough
Today John And Angela catch up with one of the School of Human Kind's faculty - Wyndham James. Wyndham is a coach, breathwork facilitator and deep thinker.
He has a particular interest in working with people experiencing what is sometimes called 'mid-life crisis' - that moment when, however successful you may have been, somehow you feel that it's 'not enough'.
Wyndham spent years in the corporate world, then years recovering from it. He has dug deep into processes of changing our 'blueprint' - and part of what we talk about is how knowing what you need to do is often not enough. Thinking will only take you so far. When we reach that limit of what thinking can do, where do we turn to? What lies beyond 'understanding' when we're going through processes of personal transformation and growth.
It's a rich conversation and we invite you to make a cup of your favourite tea and to listen in.
You can find Wyndham on Instagram @blueprintcoach_wyndham
27 Aug 2026
Family Dynamics
It gets a little personal.....
Most families are a mixture of the wonderful and the troublesome. Most of us grew up drawing strength and security from our backgrounds, and equally, carrying damage and unhelpful ways of thinking.
As the poet Philip Larkin wrote:
They fuck you up, your mum and dad.
They may not mean to, but they do.
They fill you with the faults they had
And add some extra, just for you.
or, as Tolstoy wrote:
each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.
Though it's a sometimes tough topic for both of us, today Angela and John talk about relationships with their parents - about gratitude, what baggage to put down (and how to do it), and adulting..... about being a fully fledged human.
Grab a cup of tea and join us......
21 Aug 2026
Our addiction to convenience
John thinks we're all fatally addicted to convenience. He reckons that we always take the shortcuts new technologies seem to offer, but seldom notice the real price we pay. When we outsource elements of our human capability to a machine, we lose vital facets of our humanity. He reckons AI is just the latest example of this - and he's not a fan.
Angela's not so sure. She reckons that we need to be grateful that we can avoid the drudge that earlier generations were obliged to experience. She's no desire to go back to some of the stuff even her Mum's generation had to do.
So, we got some tea, and talked it through.
Join us.
15 Aug 2026
Questions......
What better to do over a cup of tea than ask some of life's really big questions?
That's what Angela and John do this week.
They explore what questions we ask ourselves, what questions we could ask instead, and perhaps what questions are really a waste of time to ask..
Life is an endless and glorious mystery. We're never going to reach certainty, but good questions can bring us a little bit closer....
7 Aug 2026
Why are Relationships So Hard?
Today Angela and John are in conversation with Anne Alvares - one of the School of Human Kind faculty.
Anne is a coach and counsellor who specialises in healthy parenting and supporting young people. Her wisdom, drawing on her own background and on her experience as a mother of two boys, is rich and illuminating.
The three of us talk about why creating and maintaining healthy relationships is so hard - and strategies for making it less so.
You can connect with Anne via our website: www.schoolofhumankind.com
30 Jul 2026
Big Things and Small Things
John and Angela talk about dealing with big stuff and small stuff
Is there a difference?
One approach is to 'not sweat the small stuff (and it's all small stuff)'. That sounds fine, except it's not how most of us actually experience day-to-day life.
Sometimes 'stuff' feels overwhelming. Even small things can feel like they're about to crush us.
Then, also, sometimes we face something huge and seem to be able to take it in our stride....
What's going on?
Angela and John get a cup of tea and explore that question.
You're invited to do the same.
Contact: www.schoolofhumankind.com (https://www.schoolofhumankind.com)
23 Jul 2026
Presence - The Foundation of absolutely everything....
Today we tackle the big one: 'Presence'. It's the heart of personal development and business success, of rich relationship and personal empowerment. It's essential to mental health and a powerful statement of personal power in an age of distraction.
But what is it?
Angela places presence at the heart of her work on 'Relaxed Productivity'.
John spent 30 years training performers (and others) to be more fully present with themselves and each other.
So listen in as we give some practical and real-world insights into what it is to be right at the heart of your own life's experience.
15 Jul 2026
Humanitea: Navigating Change
The only constant is change.
The only certainty is uncertainty
Nothing is fixed. Nothing permanent. Life is dynamic and even the best-laid plans can shoot you off in totally unexpected directions.
Add to that the increasing craziness and unpredictability of the world we're living in right now and you have a nightmare-scenario for anyone who likes to feel they're 'in control'.
So how do we go about not only surviving, but thriving in times of change?
Well, the starting point is remembering that change is fun.
Angela and John both know a bit about navigating the unexpected - both professionally and personally.
Join us as we chat about what we've learned about it along the way - and bring a cup of tea as you listen.
8 Jul 2026
Humanitea Episode 3: How to Find Balance
Angela and John confront that age old problem - at least in the industrialised world - of how to maintain balance. There are so many demands on our time - work, family, health, sleep, saving, relaxing, studying...... There's some who will tell you the secret is to put everything into your diary, then stick to your schedule. Others say it's all down to having a good to-do list. Then there's the attractive idea of not worrying too much and just going with the flow....... How do any of these ideas stack up? Angela and John don't really subscribe to any of them. We draw on many decades of just getting on with it, sometimes falling out of balance, always getting back in again..... And we do it all over a cup of fine tea.
30 Jun 2026
Humanitea Episode 2: What is Authenticity? How to keep it real when you don't know what 'real' is.
This week we're talking about 'authenticity'. It's become a word that doesn't have much meaning - so overused by people trying to sell coaching or self- help programmes that we can come to doubt that anything is authentic. AI isn't helping either.
So what do we mean by it? And how do we try to live 'authentically' if we're not even sure what the word means?
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Welcome to Humanitea - a place for deep conversations about how to live well (helped by a selection of strange teas).
Your hosts are Canadian engineer, Angela Jamieson and Welsh-Irish artist John Britton - the co-founders of School of Human Kind.
In each episode we start with a big question and explore it over the next 30 minutes. We're not trying to sell you anything or make you think like we do. We're sharing our deep belief that having rich conversations is vital to living a decent and productive life.
We invite you to get yourself a cup of tea, listen in, and drop us a note if you've any thoughts or responses: www.schoolofhumankind.com
23 Jun 2026
Humanitea Episode 1: Essential Human Qualities
Welcome to Humanitea - a place for deep conversations about how to live well (helped by a selection of strange teas).
Your hosts are Canadian engineer, Angela Jamieson and Welsh-Irish artist John Britton - the co-founders of School of Human Kind.
In each episode we start with a big question and explore it over the next 30 minutes. We're not trying to sell you anything or make you think like we do. We're sharing our deep belief that having rich conversations is vital to living a decent and productive life.
In this episode we start from the core question: 'What are the qualities essential to being a good human?'
We invite you to get yourself a cup of tea, listen in, and drop us a note if you've any thoughts or responses: www.schoolofhumankind.com
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