Practice
How can I practice WOOP?
This page offers a variety of resources to help you practice WOOP—online, at home, or on the go. Try our mobile app and let it guide you step-by-step through the WOOP process. Watch our videos to learn more about WOOP and how you can apply it to your own life. Prefer to stay offline? Download our WOOP kit and print your own set of WOOP instructions.
Download the WOOP app
Download the app! Yes - it’s free!
The WOOP app is designed to support you in your daily life. You will learn how to identify and fulfill your most important wishes. These wishes may refer to different time spans and different life domains (academics/career, health, and interpersonal relations). The app allows you to save your wishes and observe your progress. By teaching you the WOOP strategy, the app empowers you to sort out what is important in your day-to-day routine. Over time, you’ll find and achieve what you really want.
How can I use the WOOP app?
The app guides you through the four steps Wish - Outcome - Obstacle - Plan. You only need a few minutes, but you need to be focused and stick to the right order of the four steps.
The app is available in the following languages:
Afrikaans, Arabic, Chinese (simplified, traditional), Dutch, English, Farsi, French, German, Greek, IsiNdebele, isiXhosa, Italian, Japanese, Portuguese, Polish, Russian, Siswati, Setswana, Sepedi, Sesotho, Spanish, Tagalog, Tshivenḓa, Xitsonga, and Zulu.
Watch the WOOP videos
What can WOOP look like? In these two videos, you can see how Gabriele Oettingen guides two people through a WOOP and what kind of WOOP they create for themselves.
Let the WOOP kit guide you through WOOP
The WOOP kit provides everything you need to learn and practice WOOP in your everyday life. The WOOP kit contains seven separate documents for your personal use. You’ll find an overview of WOOP, the WOOP exercise in a mental and written format, a WOOP card that you can use as a daily reminder, a checklist, faqs and information on how to adapt your plans, and a guide for WOOP in groups.
What is included in the WOOP kit?
Mental WOOP Guide - leads you mentally through a WOOP
Written WOOP Guide - guides you through a written WOOP
WOOP in one Glance - guides you through a short, written WOOP
WOOP Review - gives advice on how to check your WOOP
FAQ - frequently asked questions
Refine Your Plans - tells you three different ways to make plans
WOOP in Groups - explains how to use WOOP in groups
Voices of WOOP
“Because of this technique, I was able to transform my life.”
“I love your WOOP work-I’m sharing it wherever I go!”
“I’ve been eating much more fruit and drinking much less wine and I am wooping daily (I even have a WOOP for a daily WOOP practice)”
WOOP has been translated into many languages and is used in over 100 countries worldwide. On this page, you can learn about people's experiences with WOOP.