Understanding lived experience-driven co-production in health and social services: The sowing and growing model

• Person-centred care is often illusive in traditionally hierarchical systems. • Co-production equalizes professional and client power by centering lived experience. • These values mobilize professional and client advocacy driving 5 phases of growth. • A co-production mindset germinates, sprouts, blossoms, and propagates to new sites. • A community garden fosters sustainability, helping individual sites weather threats.