VISUAL WISDOM KEEPING
Excavate the Wisdom
of Your Becoming
Go deeper than words. A creative 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 practice of excavating wisdom through image, for women in the second half of life.
Wisdom Maps
A Practice Built for this Moment
This isn’t scrapbooking. It isn’t art therapy. It is a depth practice in mixed-media — one that works with the unconscious through image, the way dreams work, the way symbols work, the way the psyche has always known how to tell us what our thinking mind has been avoiding.
The practice lives in Wisdom Maps — self-paced digital experiences that walk you through one complete excavation on a specific theme. Each map activates your imagination through story, image, and the archetypal voices of women who have walked this ground before — meeting you at the blank page and walking you into a mixed-media excavation of the wisdom you already carry. Each map produces a spread in your Book of Wisdom — pages that become a living document. Of becoming whole. Of the wisdom that was there all along.
- 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're curious about DREAMS, SYMBOLS, AND THE STORIES BENEATH STORIES—and you want to explore them with your hands
You feel a PULL TO GATHER WHAT YOU KNOW—a refusal to let the wisdom you've earned simply disappear
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're drawn to CREATING WITH YOUR HANDS—color, texture, layers, something tactile that holds what words can't
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 — 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 crossing 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.
Excavating Wisdom, T.R.A.C.E. Method, Scattered to Sacred
Excavating Wisdom, T.R.A.C.E. Method, Scattered to Sacred
Begin Your Practice
Learn the whole practice and make your first Wisdom Map — then keep going, a new crossing each time, your Book of Wisdom growing map by map.
Begin Your Book of Wisdom, The Wisdom Maps. Visual Whispers
Begin Your Book of Wisdom, The Wisdom Maps. Visual Whispers
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
"This work honors the life you've lived, the challenges that changed you, and the knowing you carry because of them. This is how wisdom is carried forward."
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.
