Welcome!
Hi, I’m Terri Altschul. I’m an ICF PCC, Mixed Media Depth Coach, and the creator of The Visual Journaler™.
My deepest curiosity has always been how people think, learn, and create, and how those qualities can be cultivated. It carried me through thirty years of leadership development and into coaching. Then, amid a season of loss, the creativity that had been my refuge as a child came back, and art journaling found me. From that fire, The Visual Journaler was born.
I work with women who realize that the second half of life asks different questions. Questions that only become accessible once you arrive here. Not because anything is wrong. Because these questions could only be reached from this side of everything you have lived.
If you’re new here, the best place to begin is Excavating Wisdom. It introduces Visual Wisdom Keeping, the guided practice, and shows you how to begin your Book of Wisdom.
Before You Begin
These three offerings meet you where you are: the company of others
at the same edge, the method behind every Wisdom Map, and the
understanding of what this practice is really for.
From Scattered to Sacred
From Scattered to Sacred names what this practice actually is: developmental work merged with art-making. This micro-course introduces the inner frame that holds Visual Wisdom Keeping, why making with intention produces wisdom, and what that wisdom is for in the second half of life.
Learn the T.R.A.C.E. Method
T.R.A.C.E. is the five-layer framework at the heart of every Wisdom Map. This micro-course walks you through each layer, from Turning Inward to Embody Through Integration, so you understand the structure of the practice before you begin making inside it.
Threshold Cafés
Not a class, though Terri may teach a little. Not a support group, though your stories matter. A gathering of women in a café, informal and unhurried, built around one question of the second half of life with a visual exploration. Sign up for one or for a full year.
Visual Wisdom Keeping
This is Visual Wisdom Keeping. The foundational course, the first Wisdom Map,
and coaching when what surfaces asks for company.
Excavating Wisdom
Excavating Wisdom is where the practice begins. You will learn the visual language of visual wisdom keeping, set up your Book of Wisdom, move through your first active imagination exercise, and create your first T.R.A.C.E. spread. Everything you need to begin excavating wisdom.
Crossing the Threshold
You are living through something that doesn't yet have a name. In this first Wisdom Map, Crossing the Threshold gives the present moment a name through image, color, symbol, and the wisdom that emerges when you make something with your hands. No art experience required.
Wisdom Map Coaching with Terri
Something surfaced in the making that you are not quite sure how to hold yet. A 45-minute session with Terri is where the spread gets read, what it knows, what it is asking, what it is pointing toward. This is depth coaching at the level the work deserves. Bring your spread.
The Turning Series
Align your creative practice with the rhythm of the seasons. Each Turning is a guided journey through a quarter of the year—designed to help you slow down, go inward, and trust the wisdom that emerges when you move with nature instead of against her.
Every program includes interactive lessons, a printable journal, audio meditations, a curated image collection, a live seasonal retreat, and community support.
Begin With a Wisdom Map
Wisdom Maps are self-paced digital experiences that guide you through a fully held T.R.A.C.E. journey into a specific theme of your life. Each map draws from the depth-psychological tradition of Jungian individuation, the Celtic sovereignty crossing, and the archetypal patterns women have always carried through the second half of life, and weaves them into structured inner reflection and outward mixed-media making processes.
You are met at the threshold of each map by active imagination, story, and the archetypal voices of women who have walked this ground before you. The map guides you inward through contemplative practice, then outward through a layered mixed-media spread, and back inward again through the meaning you make of what your hands produced.
Each map produces a spread: a layered, mixed-media, 2-page spread in your Book of Wisdom. One map, one spread, one piece of your life made visible and held. The Book of Wisdom is the accumulating record of everything you have excavated and made meaning of, a living document of your becoming.
Stay Close to the Work
Letters from inside the practice, and word when something new opens. Plus 25% off your first Wisdom Map as a welcome.
Terri Altschul is a Mixed Media Depth Coach and the creator of Visual Wisdom Keeping.
A lifelong curiosity about how people think, learn, and create carried her career in leadership & org development into coaching, and then into a coaching practice pairing the inner journey with creativity, for women in the second half of life.
Her work draws on Jungian depth psychology, Celtic tradition, and the mixed media art materials. She is an ICF PCC with more than 4,000 coaching hours. Her gift is holding space for what's emerging and helping you become who you haven't yet been.
