Intentional communities--groups of unrelated individuals who choose to live together, sharing such things in common as wealth, property, labour, food and a sense of identity and fellowship (Kamau 2002)--continue to serve as powerful points of resistance to the larger culture of consumption that permeates our modern world. Grounded in recent research on the Bruderhof movement (now Church Communities International) and supported by a broad search of the educational and anthropological literature, this article attempts to provide some insights that might aid adult educators who are attempting to encourage others to better understand and actively resist consumptive practices.