Welcome!
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. This is where it lives.
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 Becoming a Wisdom Keeper. It will show you what this practice is and how to begin your Book of Wisdom.
Begin Your Practice
This is where the practice begins. Everything else deepens what you build here.
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.
Wisdom Map No. 1
You are living through something that doesn't yet have a name. Wisdom Map No. 1 gives it one through image, color, symbol, and the wisdom that emerges when you make something with your hands. No art experience required. This is where the practice begins in full.
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.
Foundational Practice
These three offerings deepen the skills at the heart of Visual Wisdom Keeping. Explore them alongside your practice.
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.
From Scattered to Sacred
From Scattered to Sacred names what this practice actually is: developmental work, not 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.
Visual Whispers PDF
Before you make your first spread, learn to read what images are already saying. Visual Whispers walks you through 7 gateways — each one a found image with reflection prompts that teach you to find meaning before you make meaning. The right place to begin.
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.
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Terri Altschul is a Mixed Media Depth Coach and the creator of Visual Wisdom Keeping, accompanying women through the sovereignty crossing of the second half of life.
She is an ICF PCC with more than 4,000 coaching hours. Jungian depth psychology, Celtic tradition, and the practice of making with your hands.
Her gift is holding space for what's emerging and helping you become who you haven't yet been.
