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There are concepts that are actually so easy to get to grips with, but which occasionally come up against misunderstandings here and there, which then lead to further misunderstandings.

Two people meet who don't know each other and now there are various possibilities as to how this first contact will develop and what can come of it.

If both people show and live a benevolent attitude, an impartiality in terms of appearance and language, then this mutual acquaintance will very quickly lead to an openness in communication, to an exchange, to a probing that contributes to communication and understanding.

It could be as simple as that, but our experiences and personal development mean that we are naturally biased. And so it is possible that previous experiences and our own classifications of people can lead to us being either too negative or too positive towards the other person.

In order to make contact with other people, we always need a certain amount of curiosity, and possibly also a certain naivety, especially if we have had negative previous experiences.

Our social development is characterized by demarcation. This cultural social development of hyper-individualization brings various points more to the fore. On the one hand, it is about a benevolent attitude, but also about tolerance towards dissenting opinions.

Integration is not a one-way street, but a mutual rapprochement through openness, which can be fruitful for all through a benevolent attitude.

Integration is conditioned by differences such as language, cultural and social influences. To ensure that integration does not end in a one-way street of demands for adaptation, it requires mutual acceptance, but also letting go.

For integration to succeed, spatial structures are needed in which individual freedom, if it does not offend anyone, creates trust as a basis for communicating on the basis of a benevolent attitude.

The positive stories that we then tell ourselves about these spaces, which are possible in such social relationships, then in turn create space to dare to do something, to try new experiments that can maintain curiosity.