Seeking tips to facilitate a workshop for ideation

I am a UX designer and still quite new to facilitating, therefor all of your input is appreciated!

So for one of my clients within the art industry, we are going to hold a workshop, where the primary goal is to provide them with ideas they can test for themselves during their art galleries.

There will be 8 participants and 3 clients present during this workshop (which will take 3 hours)

At the moment I have a setup where first our participants (without the client) within a focus group will engage with each other. After that, the idea is to bring the participants and the client around one table divided into 3 groups each having one client with them. Here I want to provide them exercises in the direction of choosing the topic and then creating ideas.

However, I am not sure what kind of exercise for choosing the topic and creating the idea I should provide them. Does anyone have some suggestions?

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