The book Art Therapy - from individual experience to collective context is based on the hard experience of the author, whose main goal is to apply her own procedures when working with people. The different approach is evident both from the broadly conceived (self) critical text oscillating between autobiography and popular science literature, and from the image-rich appendix. Magdalena Westman Kocábová gained her first experience with self-art therapy during the four years she spent in South Africa. Creating images helped her stay integrated in a completely different cultural environment. Don't fall apart. After returning to the Czech Republic, she wrote a number of inspiring projects and published her first book. Almost ten years of art therapy experience with people with mental disabilities inspired her, among many other things, to create her own creative methods/games that have the potential to connect people across society.