VISUAL WISDOM KEEPING
Excavate the Wisdom
of Your Becoming
Go deeper than words. A creative depth
practice of excavating wisdom through image,
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 image, 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 is about meeting who you really are.
This is the work Jung called individuation: not fixing what is broken, but integrating what has been waiting, and becoming whole. Visual Wisdom Keeping is a practice of that work. You do it with your hands, on the page, where what has been waiting can finally be seen. To meet who you have become, and to claim it, is to come into your own sovereignty.
A creative depth practice, reached through making.
Visual Wisdom Keeping is a deeply creative practice that uses mixed-media art materials. It combines creativity with mythology, and you enter through an imaginal space. You move into the unknown and come through it with new ways of embodying your life.
Symbol and image are our first languages, spoken before words, and they reach what words cannot. You do not need to be an artist. You need only your hands, your materials, and a willingness to turn inward. The art-making opens the way; what you find there is your own.
What is in you are the scattered pieces of your personal mythology. The work is an action of excavation and integration: you bring the pieces up, and you weave them into a whole. The meaning-making creates the wisdom. From scattered to sacred.
Wisdom Maps
A Practice Built for this Moment
Visual Wisdom Keeping is our foundation. The Wisdom Maps are where it begins, and the deeper offerings and guided work to come grow from the same practice.
Each Wisdom Map is a gateway into a different territory of the journey.
The journeys move through seven territories: recognizing the self you have become, the persona you have outgrown, the shadow work of reclaiming what you exiled, the ancestral lineage that made you, returning to the body, the vocation that was always yours, and the elder you are becoming. Each is met through an archetype, a Wisdom Keeper who has gone before you.
- Work with image and symbol — the language beneath words
- Excavate what is forming in you — not just what has already been lived
- Work with the unconscious directly — through image, not analysis
- Make the invisible visible — on the page and in yourself
- Create a living document of your becoming — one Wisdom Map at a time
- Integrate the parts of yourself that are asking to be seen — the light and the shadow, woven into one
What You'll Experience
The hands know things the mind hasn’t named yet — this is where they speak.
Your Living Document
Through your spreads, you create evidence of what you've come to know — something tangible that holds your becoming.
Integration of Complexity
You learn to hold contradictions, paradoxes, and multiple ways of being without losing your center.
Space for Deep Reflection
On the page, you go beneath surface thoughts into what's actually emerging.
Your Expanding Capacity
The work develops your ability to be fluid, complex, and multi-dimensional.
Companions in the Practice
Other women taking up this practice, sharing the journey.
A Living Legacy
What you develop doesn't disappear — it becomes integrated into who you're becoming, and stays with you.
This practice is for you if...
You sense there's SOMETHING TO INTEGRATE, experiences, lessons, seasons of your life asking to be seen whole.
You believe the SECOND HALF IS FOR BECOMING, not slowing down, but continuing to grow into who you are.
You feel a PULL TO GATHER WHAT YOU KNOW, a refusal to let what you've lived 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 — but you're curious what happens when you ADD IMAGE, COLOR, AND SYMBOL together.
You've kept journals, written, or made things with your hands for years, but you're curious what happens when the making becomes a way to MAKE MEANING.
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 toGo Deeper Than Words, Excavating Their Wisdom Into A Living Document Of Their Becoming
Hi! I’m Terri Altschul.
For over 30 years, I’ve been guiding women through the profound passage of becoming sovereign unto themselves. I’m an ICF-certified coach with over 4,000 hours of experience, trained in Jungian psychology, Integral Coaching, and developmental frameworks.
Some women want to work through visual practice, creating Books of Wisdom that transform them as they make them. Others are ready for direct coaching conversations that help them navigate the turn from who they’ve been to who they’re becoming. Many choose both.
Whether through image or dialogue, the work is the same: developing the capacity to be fully yourself in all your complexity.
This work meets you where you are. Some women come simply to create something meaningful. Others feel a pull toward something deeper and follow it. I’ve designed pathways for both, and everything in between.
If something here is stirring, trust it.
I’d love to create alongside you.
A Path That Grows With You
Start where you are. Go as deep as you want.
Sample 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, The Second Half of Life
Private Coaching, The Threshold Circle, The Second Half of Life
"...retrieve what we are through the poetics of depth and archetypal psychology and by means of the shaping and forming instincts of the soul..."
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.
