VISUAL WISDOM KEEPING
Excavate the Wisdom
of Your Becoming
Go deeper than words.
A mixed-media depth practice of excavating
wisdom, for women in the second half of life.
VISUAL WISDOM KEEPING
Excavate the Wisdom of Your Becoming
Go deeper than words.
A creative depth practice of excavating wisdom through mixed media, for women in the second half of life.
Something is Asking To Be Met
Maybe the roles that defined you, mother, professional, caretaker, are loosening their hold. Maybe you have walked through a loss, a transition, a door you did not choose. Maybe you woke one morning and knew you were no longer who you were at forty, or thirty, or twenty-five.
The first half of life is about building an identity. The second half of life is a developmental threshold into a woman’s sovereignty.
Visual Wisdom Keeping is a practice of transforming your lived experience into wisdom through the integration of Inner Journey and Art Process. Drawing on contemplative practices, mythology, and depth psychology, you’ll turn inward to connect with what is forming in you, then express that inner vision through a mixed-media art process. Through creative layering, from paint and collage to symbols and stamped words, you’ll learn the foundational practices of creating a Book of Wisdom that holds both the depth of your inner world and the richness of your outer expression.
From Chaos to Integration
You are in the second half of life, and something is asking to shift.
The culture around you is not helpful here. As women age, it quietly sidelines them, suggesting that their most meaningful work is behind them and that their value diminishes as their roles change. But something in you refuses that story.
You want to move through it. Into something that transcends the roles that once defined you. Into a life that is fully, unmistakably your own. The question is: what is that, and how do you begin?
Becoming a Wisdom Keeper
Where the practice begins.
You have spent decades gathering stories, images, and the kind of knowing that does not fit neatly into words. This is where you start to bring it into form.
Becoming a Wisdom Keeper is a free orientation to Visual Wisdom Keeping. You will do three things: meet the practice and understand how it differs from memory books, junk journaling, or diary keeping; set up your Book of Wisdom and experience your first active imagination exercise; and leave grounded, prepared, and ready to step into your first Wisdom Map.
You do not need to be an artist. Only your willingness to show up.
From Chaos to Integration
You are in the second half of life, and something is asking to shift.
The culture around you is not helpful here. As women age, it quietly sidelines them, suggesting that their most meaningful work is behind them and that their value diminishes as their roles change. But something in you refuses that story.
You want to move through it. Into something that transcends the roles that once defined you. Into a life that is fully, unmistakably your own. The question is: what is that, and how do you begin?
Becoming a Wisdom Keeper
Where the practice begins.
You have spent decades gathering stories, images, and the kind of knowing that does not fit neatly into words. This is where you start to bring it into form.
Becoming a Wisdom Keeper is a free orientation to Visual Wisdom Keeping. You will do three things: meet the practice and understand how it differs from memory books, junk journaling, or diary keeping; set up your Book of Wisdom and experience your first active imagination exercise; and leave grounded, prepared, and ready to step into your first Wisdom Map.
You do not need to be an artist. Only your willingness to show up.
Wisdom Maps
where the inner work and the art process meet
Wisdom Maps guide you through a complete excavation of a specific territory of the second half of life. Each map activates your imagination through guided meditation, story, image, and the archetypal voices of women who have walked this ground before. They meet you at the blank page and lead you into a mixed-media excavation of what you have lived and unlived.
The making moves through T.R.A.C.E.™, Terri’s layered methodology for Visual Wisdom Keeping. The spread you create is the made thing, meaning you could not have arrived at through thinking alone. It will not look like anyone else’s. It is completely and unmistakably your own.
Not a course. Not therapy. Not scrapbooking. Wisdom Maps are Visual Wisdom Keeping at full strength.
This practice is for you if...
You sense there is SOMETHING TO INTEGRATE, experiences, lessons, seasons of your life that have not yet been examined.
You believe the SECOND HALF IS A THRESHOLD, not slowing down.
You feel a PULL TO GATHER WHAT YOU HAVE LIVED, a refusal to let it simply disappear.
You're curious about DREAMS, SYMBOLS, AND THE STORIES BENEATH STORIES—and you want to explore them with your hands
You've kept journals, written, or made things with your hands for years and you are curious what happens when the MAKING BECOMES A WAY TO MAKE MEANING.
You do not need to be an artist. You need only your willingness to show up.
Coaching Built for this Moment
This isn’t life coaching. It isn’t therapy. It is sovereignty coaching — for women who have mastered self-authoring and are ready to develop the capacity for multiple ways of being.
You will learn to expand into new ways of being while integrating all the wisdom, strength, and complexity you’ve already developed. The conversations create space for ever-widening circles – growth that doesn’t abandon your past but transforms it into foundation.
- Work with what's emerging — the woman you're becoming, integrated with the woman you've been
- Develop the capacity for wholeness that includes contradiction, paradox, and change
- Learn to hold all the different women you are — without losing yourself in the multiplicity
- Create sovereignty over the fullness of who you are — all of it, integrated and owned
Meet Your Guide
Guiding Women In The Second Half Of Life To Go Deeper Than Words, Where The Making Creates The Wisdom
Hi! I’m Terri Altschul.
I’m Terri Altschul, a wisdom excavator, Mixed Media Depth Coach, and the creator of Visual Wisdom Keeping, accompanying women through the sovereignty crossing of the second half of life.
For over 30 years I have been doing this work, grounded in Jungian psychology, Integral Coaching, and a decades-long commitment to mindfulness and embodied practice. ICF Professional Certified Coach with over 4,000 coaching hours.
Visual Wisdom Keeping is the practice I created for this crossing. The Map guides. The coaching accompanies. What you make is yours.
If something here is stirring, trust it.
A Path That Grows With You
Start where you are. Go as deep as you want.
MEET the Practice
Get a feel for the work, free. Learn the T.R.A.C.E.™ Method, settle your mind, and meet Visual Wisdom Keeping before you commit.
Becoming a Wisdom Keeper, T.R.A.C.E., Scattered to Sacred
Becoming a Wisdom Keeper, T.R.A.C.E., Scattered to Sacred
Begin Your Practice
Learn the foundations of practice, make your first Wisdom Map, then keep going, a new territory each time, adding to your Book of Wisdom.
Wisdom Maps. Visual Whispers, The Turning Series, Live Events
Wisdom Maps. Visual Whispers, The Turning Series, Live Events
COACHING WITH TERRI
For the woman who is ready for the full depth of this work, holding the Jungian orientation at the center.
Private Coaching, The Threshold Circle, Bridging the Inner Divide
Private Coaching, The Threshold Circle, Bridging the Inner Divide
Everything Lives in The Well
Your free programs, your Wisdom Maps, your Book of Wisdom in progress.
The Well is the home of the practice.
The Open Page
WHERE WISDOM FINDS FORM
Stay Close to the Work
A note now and then from inside the practice — and word when a new map or offering opens.
Terri altschul, icf, pcc
Terri Altschul is an ICF PCC, a Professional Certified Coach with more than 30 years of experience and thousands of coaching hours.
She works with women in the second half of life, drawing on Jungian depth psychology and Visual Wisdom Keeping to guide women across the threshold into wholeness.
Her gift is holding space for what's emerging and helping you become who you haven't yet been.
