Every life is a story worth telling.
Create a gift for future generations, capture your family memories now.
If your family or life story needs to be told, we can help.
We make it easy - You reminisce, we listen and write.
Often we lose our stories before the next generation are ready to listen.
We collect your memories and work with you, or a loved one, to write a family story you will be delighted to share. We do this through personal history interviews, photographs and storytelling, focusing on the legacy stories that are important to you.
We will work with you to present your story in a way that best fits your needs.
Why use Chapters to tell your story?
We are caring creative communicators who appreciate the importance of capturing family history while the holders of the knowledge are still able to share their stories.
Our Life Story Package is used for:
later life planning
capturing important memories
recording life lessons
remembering special people.
For the forward planners out there, we help write Eulogies and organise Funeral Slideshows before they are needed.
Memory Books, designed using photos to tell a life story, are available for families living with memory loss.
Memorial Books are written with families who would like to collate stories of a loved one after they have died.
Our mission is to help people capture their personal and family history so that future generations will know the thoughts, hopes and dreams of previous generations.
Our commitment to you.
You will be cared for, feel heard & be treated with respect. You will have had a laugh along the way. We may even have a cry together. We believe you will find our storytelling process as valuable as the final product we produce.
Chapters - making it easy to tell your story.
Jules’ experience
“I recently had my life story written by Suzee. She walked me through the years, the trials and tribulations. It makes you relive your life, the tears, the laughter, reflecting on what has been truly important. It was the most wonderful thing to do.
I found her to be highly empathetic and understanding. She had the skill to draw out memories, hidden for years, with patience and love. Her talent for listening and then putting the oral story into written word is superb.
I have so enjoyed the experience and certainly benefited from it, and my children equally loved it. I could not recommend her more highly.”
Giving back
We donate 4% of our annual profit to Dementia New Zealand to acknowledge the support they give New Zealanders, including us. We would not have managed without their guidance as we cared for my parents during the dementia chapter of their lives.
Learn more about Dementia NZ
The benefits of storytelling
Wondering if you dare to tell your story? Would anyone be interested? We share why it is important to collect your memories now.
How would we do this?
We make it easy for you. Have you always wanted to write down your history but never known how? Let us do the hard work for you.
What will it look like?
You can choose. We offer a range of products to showcase your memories and photos. We will help you decide what style fits best.
What’s our story?
Find out more about us - how Chapters got started, who we are and why we want to help tell your family stories.