ABSTRACT
Theories of leadership speak about certain types of leaders: authoritarian, democratic, laissez-faire; there are trait, situational and contingency explanations for leadership, but psychosocial community work provides experiences that need to be examined from the community's own perspective. As can be seen in the papers in this volume, the categories attributed to several of those categories of leadership can be found coinciding in the same leader, and interesting forms of relation between leaders and not exactly "followers," but co-participants, are observed everyday in community research and action. Every community has leaders. They, along with most of the people in those communities, give it some form of organisation.
