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The course ‘My life, my choices’ was developed in partnership between people with lived experience of mental health problems and/or substance abuse and people with professional experience of working in mental health and substance abuse services. The principles for course development were taken from Recovery Colleges (Cameron et al. 2018; King and Meddings 2019). All activities are co‐produced by participants and professionals. Course participants are understood to be participants rather than patients, and each person chooses what he or she wants to learn (Perkins et al. 2012, p. 4).

The model challenges the traditional understanding of it being the professionals who have the most important knowledge and competence. The professionals and the people with lived experience learn and create together, valuing lived experience equally with professional experience. The model also challenges established understandings of roles. Professionals and service users are all participants, and all participants contribute. Thus, the privilege of being of help to others is also experienced by persons who traditionally would be receivers of support (Eriksen and Storesund 2019).