VISUAL WISDOM KEEPING
Excavate the Wisdom
of Your Becoming
Go deeper than words. A mixed-media depth practice
for women in the second half of life, where the making
creates the wisdom.
VISUAL WISDOM KEEPING
Excavate the Wisdom of Your Becoming
Go deeper than words. A mixed-media depth practice for women in the second half of life, where the making creates the wisdom.
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
A Wisdom Map is a guided inner journey and a layered mixed-media art process for women in the second half of life, delivered as a flowing, scrolling digital experience so immersive it feels less like a course and more like moving through a piece of music. The map draws you inward through story: mythic figures, archetypal journeys, the universal patterns that help a woman recognize her own experience in a larger, older frame. Then it brings you forward, into your own hands, your own image, your own page.
Each map works a specific territory of the second half of life: the crossings, the questions, the parts of your story that have never been fully examined. The experience is layered, with color, image, symbol, and word, and genuinely beautiful, because beauty is not decoration here. It is part of how the work works. You excavate what you have lived. You make something from it. And what you make could not have been arrived at through thinking alone. It will not look like anyone else’s. It is completely and unmistakably your own.
As you move through the map, you are also learning the practice itself: the methodology lives inside the experience, so that by the time you complete a spread, you have not just made something. You have learned how to make it. Your Book of Wisdom grows from your own hand, in your own voice, and you know how to keep going.
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 an ICF PCC and Certified Integral Coach, Mixed Media Depth Coach, and the creator of Visual Wisdom Keeping.
I came to this work after thirty years in corporate leadership and organizational development, when I discovered that putting images on paper opened something that those traditions alone couldn’t reach. The stories I had been living inside became something I could look at. That discovery became a practice. That practice became this body of work.
I work with women who may already be makers: women who have been art journaling, collaging, or working in mixed media and sense that their practice has more to offer than they have yet found. Or women who are looking for a creative practice with depth. Either way, you arrive at the page without needing to be an artist.
The second half of life is asking 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.
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.
