Elli Weisbaum

Elli Weisbaum/True Blue Stream (Chân Bích Lưu), PhD (she/her) attended her first retreat with Thầy just after her tenth birthday. Since then, she has practiced and studied with the Plum Village community, enjoying children’s program, teen’s program, and then becoming an active member of Wake Up, Thầy’s initiative for young adults.  Since 2015, she has served on the North American Wake Up Care-Taking Council. In 2025, she received the Lamp Transmission and became a Dharma teacher. She is based at the University of Toronto as an Assistant Professor in the Buddhism, Psychology, and Mental Health Program, with a joint appointment to the Department of Psychiatry in the Temerty Faculty of Medicine. She is cross-appointed to the Dalla Lana School of Public Health in their Institute of Health Policy, Management, and Evaluation. Elli’s novel background in both academic research and traditional mindfulness practice provides a distinct approach to her ongoing work teaching and researching in the field.