Visual Wisdom Keeping
A mixed-media depth practice for becoming sovereign in the
second half of life. Working with image, color, and mark-making
reaches what talking alone cannot, bringing what you have lived
into form, where it can finally be seen.
Visual Wisdom Keeping
A mixed-media depth practice for becoming sovereign in the
second half of life. Working with image, color, and mark-making
reaches what talking alone cannot, bringing what you have lived into form, where it can finally be seen.
The Second Half Asks Different Questions
The culture never told you the second half of life has a purpose. It handed you suggestions instead: slow down, step aside, rest. All three are wrong. This season is not a decline to be managed. It has its own work, and it is not small work.
The roles begin to loosen: the parts that defined you, how you showed up in the world, no longer fit the way they did. The shadow asks to be integrated: the parts of yourself that were set aside, sometimes unknowingly, are asking to be integrated. And the life you have lived asks to be reviewed and not judged. Harvested. Decades of experience, most of it passed through too quickly to be made into meaning, waiting to be made into wisdom.
And beneath all of it, something that was there before the roles ever arrived: the essential seed of who you are, waiting for this season to give it room finally. This is the work of becoming sovereign, not through more talking about it, but through what your hands can show you that words alone cannot.
Why Now?
You have spent decades being good at the instruments of the first half: clarity, planning, organizing, purpose expressed outward. Those instruments served you. They may not be the right ones for what this stage is asking.
What this stage is asking lives below language, below the thinking mind that has carried you this far. It is in the shadow, the parts of yourself set aside, sometimes unknowingly, waiting to be integrated. It is in the stories you have carried about who you are, some of them never true, waiting to be deeply seen and understood. In what you are still becoming, sovereign, self-possessed, no longer ruled by roles you didn’t choose, or by stories that were never fully yours.
Visual Wisdom Keeping is an inner journey brought forward through image, color, symbol, and mark-making to do what thinking and words alone cannot: bring what is forming in the second half of your life onto the page, layer by layer, where you can finally see it.
Here we are creating in service of something older and deeper — the work of knowing your own life, and what it has made of you.
This season of life calls for inner work.
And it has its own tools.
Real instruments for real work: what you'll actually use in this practice.
Turning Inward
Your Sacred Book
Mixed Media Art Supplies
A Layering Methodology
Work Symbolically
A Room of Women Making
What Makes the Work Possible
Your life becomes a coherent story. The decades stop being things that happened to you and become chapters you can read, with threads you can finally see.
Your way forward gets clear. Not from advice. From your own knowing, made visible enough to act on.
The parts you set aside come home. Light and shadow both, integrated instead of managed.
The overwhelm of transition becomes the material of it. What is loosening and what is forming, worked on the page instead of churning in your head.
You stop crossing alone. Women on the same ground, some a few steps ahead, walking it with you.
And underneath it all: the seed. The thing that was you before the roles arrived, uncovered at last, becoming your gift back to the world.
There is a silent language within all of us that reveals the truth of our thoughts, feelings, and emotions far more fluently than words. The language of the unconscious. This language speaks in metaphor, imagery, and symbols.
A Unique Journey
Navigating the Inner Work of the Second Half of Life
Begin Your Practice
Includes: Threshold Cafés, T.R.A.C.E., Scattered to Sacred
Deepen Your Practice
Includes: Excavating Wisdom, Wisdom Maps, Community
Expand Your Practice
Includes: The Turning Series, Depth Coaching Programs
Meet Terri Altschul
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 cognitive approaches 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.
I look forward to making alongside you.
Notes from inside the practice, where the making meets the meaning.
This is How the Wisdom Gets Made
This is Where the Practice Begins
Your Book of Wisdom is entirely your own. Not given, not retrieved, but made from everything you have lived.
No art experience needed.
Stay Close to the Work
Letters from inside the Visual Wisdom Keeping practice, and word when something new opens. Plus 25% off your first Wisdom Map as a welcome.
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.
