Helping humans feel more human.
Connection Codes is the work of forty years of clinical practice, distilled into eight emotions, three templates, and one practice at a time.
Forty years, eight emotions, one wheel.
Dr. Glenn Hill spent four decades in clinical practice watching the same patterns repeat: couples talking past each other, families circling the same fight, individuals unsure why a feeling kept returning.
Phyllis Hill — coach, communicator, and partner of forty-plus years — saw the same patterns inside her own marriage, her own parenting, her own life.
Together they built the Core Emotion Wheel: a map of the eight feelings that drive every disconnection, and the language to name them out loud.
The purpose of emotion is to create motion. The work is to know what motion.
Dr. Glenn Hill
Three tenets.
- 01
Name what's underneath.
Every conversation is two conversations — the surface one, and the one happening underneath. We help couples and individuals learn to hear both.
- 02
Eight emotions, eight needs.
The Core Emotion Wheel maps the eight feelings that drive every disconnection. Each one carries a message and a need. Learning them is learning a language.
- 03
Practices, not theories.
Reading about connection doesn't build connection. Every Field Notes essay closes with one small practice you can try this week.
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