“All the World’s a Stage...”
We all play all of these roles all the time. Often, we’ll cycle
through all of the roles in a single exchange with someone,
lurching from Victim to Rescuer to Persecutor and back again. To
make the point, here’s a made-up conversation I might recently
have had with a client after I gave a speech.
Me [shouty]: This room setup is all wrong! I sent through my
demands of how I want this; how hard is it just to set up the
room as requested? And donuts. Stop feeding people donuts.
And the session starts in fifteen minutes! (Persecutor)