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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.
The Sub-Competent Saviour Loop — How Incompetence, Dependency and Protection Keep Dysfunctional Systems Alive, by Sharon Mackenzie

The Loop — part of the Human Systems body of work.

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