“As a picture for this social-happening [the re-founding of the Anthroposophical Society in 1923-24] stood the blood circulation of the human organism: the centrifugal forces and the centripetal need each other reciprocally. The free working-beyond stream of the central initiative should be in accordance with the free, peripheral initiative; and thus -- right up to the above mentioned, fully innovative conception of an Executive Council -- organized according to periphery and center. Only together did they comprise a whole [3.4]: an organization arising out of free inner activity.

Orienting and stimulating the weekly-rhythmic stream of work, the points of view and articles of the center (Leading Thoughts, Letters to the Members, presentations of the tasks of the School) went out to the periphery. There they were taken up autonomously and by each member individually, as well as in the working-groups (branches, etc.). Stimulated in this way, the new experiences and insights of the periphery should, now individualized and thus enriched, flow once again back to the center.

However, not for the preservation of the institution as such, but rather "so that the stimuli for the societal work emanates not only from the center, but rather also from the periphery" [3.7].”

The above quote is from the document:

E i n N a c h r i c h t e n b l a t t
A News Sheet for Friends of Anthroposophy
and Members of the Anthroposophical Society
Volume 11, No. 3 - February 6th, 2021 (English translation, September 22, 2021)

Edited excerpts from:
Elements of an "Organization with Free-Inner-Activity"
Roland Tüscher