What is the story of Chief story ?
As the wind carries up the grains of sand, as a baby takes its first breath, as the leaves decorate the avenues of trees in the spring and the tributaries of the streams fill in the winter.
Thus, naturally, that is how Chief Story was established.
As the years pass, this is how we gain life experience. We become wiser, multiply wisdom and knowledge, study ourselves - and the world around. What we know today is not what we knew in our youth. It turns out that the person who embodies the most wisdom of life is the 'elder of the tribe' - those senior citizens, who have been walking this journey of life longer than the rest of us. They are the ones who treasure this life experience within themselves: the treasure of the 'wisdom of life'.
Chief Story was also created - naturally, in order to serve as a channel for the senior citizens to share and share the wisdom of their lives with the younger generation.
Just like the stream that bends its tributaries towards the valley, towards the seeds that want to germinate, towards the plants that want to bloom - so those veterans feed the younger generation with insights from their lives, with morals, with life wisdom that cannot be found in a Google search.
We are in chief, letting nature do its thing. Our only human touch is the one who listens to a life story and with faith and respect makes it accessible to the younger generation in a way that children love - through stories.
The vision of the Chief Story is twofold: to instill knowledge and wisdom of life from adults to children - wisdom of life that will serve them in the trials of life, alongside instilling a sense of value and vitality in the adults among us - a renewed meaning for the period of the end of life.
Hello, my name is Yifat Santo and I am the entrepreneur of Chief Story.
In my education I am a materials engineer (B.Sc) and a facilitator of groups in combination of arts (MA). Today I am a social entrepreneur, a writer of children's stories, a leader of groups for the third and fourth ages, writing biographies and setting up projects to strengthen the Bindori relationship.
My story is the story of the transition from a technological world to a social one, a story of learning that comes from personal experience, a story that believes that stories can change lives.
One of the stories that changed my life is my own. Somewhere in 2018, as a mother of 3, I arrived at the kindergarten in the middle of the day one of the times, in order to bring objects and equipment. While I was at the kindergarten, I noticed a volunteer grandmother, who was there as part of the 'Grandmother in the Kindergarten' project, this is a project where grandparents read stories to children, teach them about being careful on the roads and give them a hug or a warm shoulder when needed. I watched her as she comforted a little girl who missed her parents. The grandmother was attentive and patient, did not rush to comfort, but naturally began to tell that girl that she, as a child, had a hard time saying goodbye to her parents when she went to school. I looked at the girl. Here is not another adult telling her "it will be alright" or "mom will come back" but someone who understood her experience, who experienced firsthand what she was feeling. She listened to the grandmother with curiosity and even wonder as if thinking: "You? You're big, how can it be that you experienced the same thing?"
The personal story that grandmother told her is the one that made all the difference for that little girl. He is the one who gave her an affirmation to her experience, and taught her how to cope. On the other side - I saw the grandmother's beaming and full eyes after she finished her story and the girl slowly got up, moved away and sat down in the meeting with the kindergartener together with all the children. The grandmother herself was almost as excited as the girl. As if saying: I succeeded. And what have I done? Naturally, I shared my personal experience with her.
The grandfathers and grandmothers among us have the patience, the intelligence and the wisdom that can change the lives of small children, just like the clan elder in traditional societies, whose role was to instill knowledge and life wisdom to the tribe's youth.
This grandmother, Deborah, is the heroine of the first children's story written as part of the "Chief Story" children's stories: 'Olympia'. Since then, more grandparents were gathered, and inspired by their lives, more stories were written with a message and life wisdom, which were told to dozens of children. The stories help the children's character to be shaped as little people who begin to learn about themselves and the life around them, and on the other hand give the elderly a sense of value, vitality, satisfaction and belonging even in adulthood.