About myself
How my creative background inspires my guided tours in Mallorca.
Biel Moll Galmés
A series of key professional and personal experiences have shaped the ways I understand, feel, relate to and present the history and culture of Mallorca and the island’s many other facets. There is no exact cause and effect relationship behind the way my own life influences the way I introduce you into Mallorca; I see it more as a creative background that will materialise uniquely with different situations and people.
Agricultural Mallorca
I was brought up on a possessió, which is how the large agricultural estates on the island are known. During my childhood there I was instilled with a way of looking at life typical of an agricultural and oral universe with a strong sense of connection to the past. In that environment I acquired a sense of closeness to nature, a taste for connecting to the world through my senses, for local cuisine, for the environment as a space for playful exploration, for feeling the energised body. My attraction for the contemplation of the countryside was born at this time. Years later I became fascinated by the possibility of reading the history of Mallorca through the story of its landscapes.
The many Mallorcas
In my teenage years my family left the farm and went to live on the coast. An area that just decades ago had been sparsely populated was rapidly transforming into a tourist destination. I was a witness to the chaotic unharnessed power of one of the successive births of tourist Mallorca. The diversity of ways of living, feeling and understanding the same place made a strong impression on me. I found out that there were many Mallorcas. Unknowingly I learnt to address the island in the plural, becoming familiar with complexity.
Little-known trails
I spent my early youth following my inclinations, interested to see where they would take me. I looked for contrasts, leaving the familiar behind me, immersing myself in the life of the big cities; London, Paris, Madrid. My thirst for knowledge pushed me to study philosophy and I found deep pleasure in intellectual adventure, writing a series of books related to my different career experiences. I understood how a sharpened intellect can widen the perception of reality, at the same time as it detects the limits of one’s own thinking.
My longing for experience prevented me from mistaking the usefulness of ideas and concepts with reality. There came a time when I sensed the need to get an emotional education and it felt so good that I ended up working as a qualified Gestalt therapist. Later on I became deeply interested in dance; I was captivated by its power as a means of expression and relation; the way movement and the body influence cognition had a strong impact on me. I have felt a constant drive to assimilate different yet complementary ways of understanding and sensing reality. I have given myself up to this force as I feel that it gives a sense of purpose to my life.
Brief CV
Official Tour Guide License, ratified by the Government of the Balearic Islands. Higher Vocational Qualification in Tourism Guide.
Degree in Philosophy, Master in Education, Gestalt Therapist (Fellow of the Spanish Gestalt Therapy Association).
Press journalist, news agencies and television (Mallorcan politics and current affairs), Gestalt therapist (individual and group) and emotional educator at primary and secondary schools.
Published Works:
Lletra de caramuixa, un assaig sobre la Mallorca actual (ed. Documenta Balear). Feeble Writing, an essay on contemporary Mallorca
Els Diàlegs de Psique i Paideia, adaptacions de la teràpia humanista i sistèmica en el context educatiu (ed Aïllades). The Dialogues of Psique and Paideia, adaptations of humanist and systemic therapy in an educational context
Homo Terapeuticus, ampliando miradas sobre la masculinidad (ed. Carena). Homo Terapeuticus, opening viewpoints on masculinity
MallorcaBiel, manifesto por un nuevo ocio turístico (in press). MallorcaBiel, manifesto for new forms of tourism and leisure.
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