The Sub-Competent Saviour Loop
How Incompetence, Dependency and Protection Keep Dysfunctional Systems Alive
Sharon Mackenzie · Published by Spirit Led Counselling
Sharon Mackenzie SpiritRSPrac · Founder & Educator
- Diploma of Counselling
- Accredited Chaplain
- Narrative Practice Practitioner · Health & Harmony Colleges
- Advanced Aromatherapy Practitioner · Health & Harmony Colleges
- Trauma-Informed Care
Counselling and chaplaincy training and trauma-informed care inform Sharon’s educational work.
How incompetence, dependency and protection keep dysfunctional systems alive.
About the book
Dysfunctional systems rarely survive by accident.
This book examines the loop where incompetence, dependency and protection reinforce one another — and how that quiet arrangement keeps a struggling system running long past the point of health.
What this book explores:
- Incompetence that is tolerated, protected or rewarded
- Dependency as a system's stabiliser
- The saviour role and what it costs everyone
- Why dysfunctional systems stay alive
Human Systems, Book Three — The Loop.
Rescue can be the very thing that keeps a broken system standing.
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