A community of practice where organizations listen together and strengthen mental wellness and resilience across the county.
Organizations across the county, listening together.
- Connect
- Collaborative • Ongoing
13 programs, four ways in
Every SparkPoint program follows one of four pathways: Listen, Learn, Lead, and Connect. They’re rooted in Transylvania County, and we run them with partners across Western North Carolina.
What we’re leading with
A collaborative that brings the county’s organizations into one room, and a simulation that lets a room walk the system together.
A SparkPoint simulation that turns a room into a system: small groups carry a fictional family through its doors, delays, and handoffs, then read the map together.
Its first edition filled the room on October 1.
- Lead
- Event • Facilitated session
Listen
Hearing what the community is living, and making it visible to the people who can act on it.
1 program
SparkPoint's listening practice: we gather residents' stories on one question at a time and take what we hear to the people who can act on it.
- Project • One question at a time
- Community Offering
Learn
Building the skills and habits that help people, teams, and leaders do their best work together.
4 programs
Connected Leadership
A yearlong series for workplaces that want a more connected culture, built around their own team.
- Series • Yearlong
- Fee-Based
Leadership Wellbeing
A series for leaders on attention, boundaries, and leading in a way they can sustain.
- Series • Leadership series
- Partner-Based
SparkPurpose Workshops
Two-hour guided sessions where teams and individuals talk through what matters to them and leave with a next step.
- Workshop • Two hours
- Fee-Based
SparkPoint's mentorship fellowship, training media generalists in ethical storytelling, editing, design, and responsible AI tools.
- Cohort • Fellowship cohorts
- Community Offering
Lead
Putting students, and the room itself, in charge of seeing what needs to change.
2 programs
Voices of the Students (VOS)
Student-led sessions on middle and high school campuses, where students say what school is really like and help decide what changes.
- Cohort • Through the school year
- Partner-Based
A SparkPoint simulation that turns a room into a system: small groups carry a fictional family through its doors, delays, and handoffs, then read the map together.
- Event • Facilitated session
- Fee-Based
Connect
Working alongside partners, and linking people to the help that already exists.
6 programs
A community of practice where organizations listen together and strengthen mental wellness and resilience across the county.
- Collaborative • Ongoing
- Partner-Based
Neighbors people already trust, with the training and tools to help their communities get ready for hard days and recover from them.
- Collaborative • Ongoing
- Community Offering
A monthly gathering of women for honest conversation, shared growth, leadership, and belonging.
- Event • Monthly
- Community Offering
Nonprofit Partner Network
A facilitated space where local nonprofits and coalitions meet, coordinate, and track shared goals.
- Collaborative • Ongoing
- Partner-Based
Resource Lobby
A front door to local help at the Resilience Hub, with the same listings online in the Resource Directory.
- Ongoing • At the Hub and online
- Community Offering
Family and Parent Program
A place for families to connect, learn, and get a warm handoff to the right support. Opening with the Resilience Hub build-out.
- Ongoing • Coming with the Hub
- Community Offering
Bring a program to your group
Tell us what you’re working on and who you’re working with. We’ll find the program, or the partner, that fits.