A practice space, not a curriculum

Train the craft of hosting conversations.

Hosting is a sport: it improves with reps, not with reading. UltraHosting gives you a palette of moves, timed games that isolate one skill at a time, tools for live conversations, and a field guide to raid in any order.

Play a game Open the palette

Five working principles

Everything on this site maps back to these. Each game trains one or two of them under time pressure.

The space

Centerpiece

The Hosting Palette

Six moves that cover most of what a host does in the moment: redirect, surface difference, find relevance, extract an example, recap, ask the naive question.

Practice

Games

Ten timed drills, each isolating one hosting skill — from repairing weak questions in ten seconds to holding silence for eight.

Live use

Tools

A multi-person table timer with talk-share bars, a conversation planner built on the eight-phase spine, and a rep log.

Field guide

Learn

Openings, question families, listening channels, long-form shape, and the guarded guest. Reference pages, not a sequence — enter anywhere.

Formats

Ideas

Ways to practice: solo routines, partner formats, table games for real dinners, and a review ritual for recordings.

Your data

Progress & Data

Reps by game, palette moves used, and export/import so your progress travels between browsers.

Where to start

Ten minutes, alone

The daily set

One set of Rapid Repair (8 rounds), one set of The Naive Ear (10 rounds), one Recap in One. Out loud, standing up.

Before a real conversation

Deal a hand

Open Palette Draw, deal two moves, and carry them into the dinner, meeting, or interview. Afterwards, mark what you used and log one note.

With a partner

Host for twelve minutes

One hosts, one guests, using the Table Timer to keep the host under 25% of talk time. Swap. The Ideas page has full formats.