The BeeConectar Story
I have always had a passion for sport and people. As a little girl, the only time I was allowed to stay up later than 8pm was when I was watching a Benson & Hedges game with my grandmother. Subsequently, I developed a deep desire to be involved in the game, however, women cricketers at that stage were unheard of. To be honest, I also fell short on the talent spectrum but I was good with maths. I soon combined my passion and abilities and became a scorekeeper instead.
As an adult, I continued to search for ways to blend my passion for sport, people and psychology, the career path that I was on. This art was one of connecting dots. I soon connected my name, Bee, to the overarching theme of connection. I chose the Spanish spelling as I have a slight fondness to the language after my trip to Peru.
In short, BeeConectar was born as a platform to connect my passion for sport, people, and mental health. Someone once said, a miracle is when you look back and you can connect the dots, and it all worked out. BeeConectar offers a space to look back, connect the dots, and then look forward, and curate your own happy ending.
BeeConectar exists to assist people in the process of being the best version of themselves by joining their unique journeys and providing support and guidance through our services. We believe that people aspire to be the best version of themselves and that they are searching for ways to move from A to B in the process to become, The Best You, Every Step of the Way.
Our Core Values:
Connection
Excellence
Professionalism
Empowerment
Coffee with Bee
I love connecting with people over a cup of coffee. I would always leave the conversation feeling encouraged, inspired, and motivated. Coffee with Bee is a platform to share those conversations with you - to share the extraordinary lives of ordinary people, their struggles, and victories. I write these stories in the hope that you will be encouraged to curate the narrative of your own life and be everything that you were created to be.
About Doc Bee
I have known Bianca, affectionately known within the sporting world as Doc Bee, since 2004, first as her lecturer and then as her master’s and doctoral research supervisor. She always impressed as a motivated, ambitious (in the good sense of the word) and driven young woman with strong goals for herself. It was also very clear to me that it is important to her that her learning and goals should benefit both her and others. She thus embodies social responsibility and citizenship in her vision and actions.
When she qualified as a counsellor, an interesting application of her skills and
knowledge was sport. She drew on her sporting interest as a professional cricket
scorekeeper and added her knowledge of psychology and skill as counsellor to
sporting codes such as rugby and cricket to provide emotional support and
mental training for both developing and elite athletes. Doc Bee has extended
her skills gained from doing good research and training as a counsellor to
building BeeConectar Consultancy. Her attention to detail, creativity,
criticality, compassion, and many other skills cultivated her desire to build a
brand that fosters human connections. What strikes me about her increasingly,
is her resourcefulness in transforming ideas into action across various activities
and applications. I believe that this, above all, is her most distinguishing feature.
- Written by Prof Ronelle Carolissen
Prof. Carolissen and Doc Bee
Bianca obtained three degrees from Stellenbosch University, B.Psych, MA Psychology and a Phd in Educational Psychology. Additionally, she completed an honours module in Sport Psychology. She also trained under Dr Patrick Cohen, leading international sport psychologist, and received the Mental Game Coaching Certificate as a performance coach from Peak Performance Sport. She was appointed as the performance coach for the Springbok Women on their 2022 world cup journey and has worked with various other elite athletes across sporting codes including netball, kickboxing, karate, cycling and sailing.