Creating a Life Story Book can be a positive, joyful experience of discovery and understanding, of achievement and purpose. It doesn’t need to be an overwhelming, complex, time consuming endeavour, and it certainly doesn’t need to be something that will dull or diminish the memory of the book.
Our team is skilled at making the process seamless. At providing empathy, sensitivity and respect in the hard times, and also joy and celebration in the good times.
We take the overwhelm and pressure out of the process, and help you capture your history and stories in one of our beautiful bespoke Life Story Books.
We believe you can’t put a price on love. The time, and attention to detail in creating ‘Life Story Books’ is paramount to the process and is reflected in our prices.
But we also understand that we are all living in challenging times and that most of us don’t have much financial room to move. That’s why we have created four packages to suit every person and budget, and we have filled as much value into each of the packages as we possibly could!
We provide you with our step–by–step guide, multiple helpful resources, and two face–to–face consultations to help you create your own ‘Life Story Book’.
Step-by-step guide
Supply 3 About Me books
2 one-on-one online consults
(30 minutes each)
Your voice is they most identifiable element of your personality, bringing joy, comfort and reassurance to family and friends.
In this intimate and private interview, we talk candidly and confidentially about the issues, events, concerns and circumstances that helped shape who you are today and provide you with the opportunity to speak up about what really matters to you.
Step-by-step guide
Supply one All about me book
2 hr conversation face to face recording
1 complete recording of your life story or topic
1 page summary including timeline
We support you to bring your story to life. This package includes a step-by-step guide, helpful resources, and three face-to-face consultations to help you find and capture information.
We then collate all of your information and create and print a bespoke ‘Life Story Book’.
Step-by-step guide
Supply 6 About Me books
3 individual face–to–face interviews
Creation of Life Story Book
Printing of finalised book
In this comprehensive package our specialist team researches, records and creates your keepsake book for you.
We create a strategy and plan, identify who and where to contact to find information, we contact and interview, research and trace, source photos and records, and create a bespoke ‘Life Story Book’.
Step-by-step guide
Supply 6 About Me books
6 individual face–to–face interviews
Genogram (on usb)
Timeline history (on usb)
Creation of Life Story Book
Printing and delivery of book with presentation of all information
Tailored packages available at request
We believe you can’t put a price on love. The time, and attention to detail in creating ‘Life Story Books’ is paramount to the process and is reflected in our prices.
But we also understand that we are all living in challenging times and that most of us don’t have much financial room to move. That’s why we have created four packages to suit every person and budget, and we have filled as much value into each of the packages as we possibly could!
We provide you with our step–by–step guide, multiple helpful resources, and two face–to–face consultations to help you create your own ‘Life Story Book’.
We support you to bring your story to life. This package includes a step-by-step guide, helpful resources, and three face-to-face consultations to help you find and capture information.
We then collate all of your information and create and print a bespoke ‘Life Story Book’.
In this comprehensive package our specialist team researches, records and creates your keepsake book for you.
We create a strategy and plan, identify who and where to contact to find information, we contact and interview, research and trace, source photos and records, and create a bespoke ‘Life Story Book’.
We provide you with our step–by–step guide, multiple helpful resources, and two face–to–face consultations to help you create your own ‘Life Story Book’.
Your voice is the most identifiable element of your personality, bringing joy, comfort, and reassurance to family and friends. In this intimate and private interview, we talk candidly and confidentially about the issues, events, concerns and circumstances that helped shape who you are today and provide you with the opportunity to speak up about what really matters to you.
We support you to bring your story to life. This package includes a step-by-step guide, helpful resources, and three face-to-face consultations to help you find and capture information. We then collate all of your information and create and print a bespoke ‘Life Story Book’.
In this comprehensive package our specialist team researches, records and creates your keepsake book for you. We create a strategy and plan, identify who and where to contact to find information, we contact and interview, research and trace, source photos and records, and create a bespoke ‘Life Story Book’.
Reflective of our core values, we ensure flexibility in everything that we do. Every person is different, and every story is different, and we are proud to give flexibility where we can. If our packages don’t align with your goals or abilities, we will work with you to create an individualised package.
You can easily contact us on 0487 106 003 or by emailing [email protected].
First, we book in a phone consult with you to find out exactly what your needs are, and to determine which package you need.
- If you are purchasing our DIY package, we direct you to the template and resources and provide some hints and tips for your journey.
- If you are purchasing a ‘hand it over’ or ‘get a little helping hand’ package, we schedule a meeting with you to begin your journey.
Each story is unique, and the process may take longer for some people than others. We generally advise 8 weeks for the creation of a Life Story Book.
Once we have finished a strategy and planning session, we will be able to guide you in how long the process is likely to take.
We can be very flexible.
- If the person is well and eager to be involved, we do spend quality time and effort with that person to bring the book to life. This may be in-person meetings, video meetings or phone calls.
- If the person is unwell and the book is being arranged by family/friends, we can gather information from other sources. This can be friends, family, colleagues, clubs and so on. We will respect and fit seamlessly into your plan/requests.
During our strategy and planning meeting we will help you identify all the important stages, places and people in your life. We then research and follow up each lead.
- This might be researching a place (a sports club) and obtaining and recording details of the place, photos and memorabilia.
- It might be tracing and tracking down people, making contact, interviewing and recording information and stories.
- It might be researching an event (a birth) where we contact hospitals and obtain records and notes.
- If you have purchased a ‘hand it over’ package we will provide you with all of the information gathered, and work with you to design and create a Life Story Book.
- If you have purchased a ‘get a little helping hand’ package you will have completed the research and information gathering yourself, and you can submit the information to us and we create and print your life story book.
- If you have purchased a DIY package our step by step guide will give you information on how to create your own life story book.
We provide you with one hard copy, and a digital file of the book. You can purchase additional hard copies.
Yes, we hand over our file to you on completion.
We will keep you updated throughout the process. If we are unable to obtain important information, we give you the option to cancel, and we provide a refund (excluding time already spent)
We have enough stuff, what we don’t have is enough stories
Chances are your family knows some of your stories. They might know the big moments or those moments they’ve been a part of. But what about the untold stories they don’t know.
Maybe it’s memories from your childhood that shaped you. Maybe it’s your teenage years. Your first job. Your first love. Your first-hand experience of times in history that perhaps you’ve alluded to but never really captured or spoken about.
Or perhaps there are some memories they’re not aware of. Sights, evocative smells, taste, desires, fears and more.
Now consider what it would mean to capture those stories, that history, not just for you but for future generations.
The gift of your story is a priceless gift that is so much more precious than ‘stuff’ yet too often we don’t think to record it until it’s too late. Many of us also either don’t have the time or perhaps we’re not sure what questions to ask of ourselves to discover these untold stories.
That’s what we at The Untold Story is all about. Helping you capture, record and commemorate for future generations, your family stories.
Family-owned businesses are rich in stories and history. However, as time passes, those stories are forgotten, they pass away with the founder or perhaps they’re known by owners but not shared with your customers.
Storytelling is a powerful way to engage with your customers. To develop trust, connection and to help them resonate with the human side of business.
So many business owners are looking for a story to tell when the answer lies within their history. The trouble is you’re too busy in your business to spend time drawing out the stories and writing them down, perhaps you’re not a storyteller yourself or you don’t know what stories to draw out.
Let us do that for you.
Chances are you remember some of the stories of your parents’ or grandparents’ childhood Of their teenage years. Their first job. How they met. Highs and lows.
Or perhaps there are some memories you’re not aware of. Sights, evocative smells, taste, desires, fears and more.
Now consider what it would mean to capture those stories, that history, not just for you but for future generations.
The gift of history, of our stories is so much more precious than ‘stuff’ yet too often we don’t think to record it until it’s too late. Many of us also either don’t have the time or perhaps we’re not sure what questions to ask to discover these untold stories.
That’s what we at The Untold Story is all about. Helping you capture, record and commemorate for future generations, your family stories.
We also see so much joy in the world! The birth of new babies, the wobbly first steps of a toddler, their momentous first tooth and the Christmas morning overwhelm. We see the waves of exhaustion and elation for new parents, the awe and the love, the delicate movements and careful cradling. So many precious moments and experiences that are fleeting, they are innately limited, and that is what makes them so sweet! They are not things you can hold on to, those experiences cannot be recreated as we age.
But we can capture them, capture the moments, the still images, the recollection of the sounds, tastes, smells, feelings. We can capture it all while the memories are still close. And we can save them for you in a beautiful book that you can treasure and cradle long after the children have grown and flown. Investing in the moments and memories now will be something you will be endlessly grateful for when you are older, and wiser, and long for those vivid memories
and moments.
Capturing a life in a tangible way can be utterly unique, it can be for solemn reasons, for joy and happiness, for love and laughter. The WHY is limitless. The only important question you need to ask is when.