AvailableThe Human Systems Series · Book 3 of 5
The Sub-Competent Saviour Loop
By Sharon Mackenzie
How Incompetence, Dependency and Protection Keep Dysfunctional Systems Alive
Some systems keep going not in spite of their dysfunction but because of it. Incompetence creates need, need creates rescuers, rescuers create dependency — and the loop closes behind everyone involved.
The Sub-Competent Saviour Loop names that pattern plainly: how protection becomes concealment, how helping becomes control, and why the people holding a system together are so often the ones who burn out inside it.
Written for anyone responsible for a room full of humans and wondering why the same problems keep coming back wearing different clothes.
Bookshop shelves
- Human Systems & Institutional Culture
- Leadership, Governance & Power
- Safeguarding & Psychological Safety
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Published by Spirit Led Counselling. Included in the Spirit Led Bookshop as part of Sharon Mackenzie’s foundational collection.
Sharon’s author homeRelated on the shelves
- Who Safeguards the Chaplain?Because compassion also needs protection. A safeguarding reflection on the structures that surround chaplaincy in prisons, schools, hospitals, defence, workplaces and communities.
- The LabyrinthA field guide to human systems — the unwritten rules, the quiet power, and the winding path back to clarity.
- I Know This ShapeA warm, practical exploration of the patterns humans create in relationships, workplaces, churches, families and communities — and how to find our way out of them.
