This paper investigates the inner functioning of group process, an alternative communication strategy, often used in 'progressive' organizations, particularly in terms of turn-taking strategies, the facilitator's role, and achievement of consensus. It then compares and contrasts its findings with the description of the Anglo system for the regulation of talk as put forth in Philips (1976). It furthermore analyzes whether the use of turns and floors in these organizations conforms to the definitions presented in Edelsky's `Who's got the floor?' (1986). It concludes that two additional floors are necessary to describe the interaction in the groups studied, the Alice Paul Women's Center and the Latin American Studies Group of Swarthmore College. As the two groups appear to differ in gender composition, but not in communicative strategies, the findings are interpreted as evidence that [+ male] is the unmarked case in social interaction in Anglo society.