Fun, lifelong relationships, and a safer community: understanding collective leadership practice in a grassroots association

The relational processes and practices that create and sustain Grassroots Associations have received limited attention from researchers. This paper addresses this gap, exploring collective leadership of Grassroots Associations through a Leadership-As-Practice lens (Raelin, 2016a, 2016b). It adopts the concept of ‘bundles’ of leadership practice (Schatzki, 2005) to analyse data from a single ethnographic case study. Adopting this conceptual lens, we identify a set of ‘bundles’ of related practices - organising, engaging, accounting - that constitute the enduring reality of the association’s collective leadership